Rinse & rePeat
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"In the 1960s the World Health Organization found that when iron supplements were given to anemic people in Africa, there was a great increase in the death rate from infectious diseases, especially malaria. Around the same time, research began to show that the regulation of iron is a central function of the immune system, and that this seems to have evolved because iron is a basic requirement for the survival and growth of cells of all types, including bacteria, parasites, and cancer. The pioneer researcher in the role of iron in immunity believed that an excess of dietary iron contributed to the development of leukemia and lymphatic cancers. Just like lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel and other heavy metals, stored iron produces destructive free radicals. The harmful effects of iron-produced free radicals are practically indistinguishable from those caused by exposure to X-rays and gamma rays; both accelerate the accumulation of age-pigment and other signs of aging. Excess iron is a crucial element in the transformation of stress into tissue damage by free radicals." -Ray Peat
About seven or so years ago, I was on vacation and woke up with my arms or legs, or both, dead asleep every night. It would be like a fake plastic arm asleep and it was very alarming and painful afterwards. I wondered why it only happened on vacation and starting making notes about my foods and several vacations later, it came down to rum or seafood. At home I would eat a lot of canned tuna, but on vacation I would dive into an array of seafood dishes that I couldn't get back home. An internet search indicated possible mercury poisoning. Other symptoms I had only on vacation was extreme bleeding gums. One time, brushing my teeth, the sink looked like someone punched me in the mouth. The most alarming was one time, waiting in line at the valet, my legs gave out on me. I was on the ground paralyzed from the waist down!
Once I suspected mercury poisoning, it was confirmed when asking my son, who also ate just as much canned tuna as me, if his limbs went dead at night and he said yes, weekly. Now that I had figured out that mercury had built up in me, I gave up tuna, and set about learning to chelate them, trying the usual suggested protocol, with vitamin C
and cilantro, but it only made things worse, circulating them and assuring another dead arm that night. I really had no recourse, except to keep any further metals from accumulating, and further reading on the subject I realized there were surely other metals that had built up too like aluminum and iron. So the first thing I did was get rid of my pots and pans, including my cast iron skillets, and set out, with my magnet in hand, to make my "investment" in safe cookware, once piece at a time.
"There are two main types of stainless steel, magnetic and nonmagnetic. The nonmagnetic form has a very high nickel content, and nickel is allergenic and carcinogenic. It is much more toxic than iron or aluminum. You can use a little "refrigerator magnet" to test your pans. The magnet will stick firmly to the safer type of pan." -Ray Peat
Be sure when buying magnetic stainless steel cookware that the sides are magnetic as well. Makers will usually put the safe metal just on the bottom just to say it's magnetic. Finding pieces with the sides magnetic too is like finding treasue. Once you do find a safe piece, with magnetic sides and bottom, don't be fooled into buying the whole set, because there can be only bottom magnetic pieces withing a set.
As time went on I realized vitamin C in fruit, especially citrus and even supplimetal C would give me that numb arm at night, so I avoided vitamin C, or at least strategized having them in the morning, hoping it would clear out by the evening. I noticed other patterns like taking any herbs, aspirin or NSAIDs at bedtime or in the middle of the night would have my arm dead within the hour, so I stopped all of that. Then I came across this Ray Peat quote, and that is when things turned around......
"Milk, orange juice, and coffee safely accelerate the removal of heavy metals from the tissues. Everyone's body accumulates PUFA's, which progressively interfere with metabolism and raise TSH. Iron, as well as other heavy metals (except for copper) tends to accumulate. Drinking coffee also helps to shift the hormone balance in the right direction." -Ray Peat
After reading that quote I had realized that upping my milk sometime earlier in the year had made a noticable difference in the frequency of my numb arm showing up nights. I started testing the idea more by having the offending foods and other substances chased down with a glass of milk, and to my relief, it worked, with no dead arm! The milk worked time and time again! I don't know how much heavy metals are still inside of me, but I steer away from any tuna, make sure I don't cook acid things in metal pans and I steer away from suppliments, fortified cereals and grains, NSAID's, deodorant and drink lots of milk now! I am so grateful for that numb arm. It warned me of the perils that were waiting ahead for me, with a horrific list to choose from (linked below), just from mercury! Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease is linked to aluminum, and the list goes on and on.
"Other heavy metals, including lead and aluminum, are toxic; pans and dishes should be chosen carefully." -Ray Peat
About seven or so years ago, I was on vacation and woke up with my arms or legs, or both, dead asleep every night. It would be like a fake plastic arm asleep and it was very alarming and painful afterwards. I wondered why it only happened on vacation and starting making notes about my foods and several vacations later, it came down to rum or seafood. At home I would eat a lot of canned tuna, but on vacation I would dive into an array of seafood dishes that I couldn't get back home. An internet search indicated possible mercury poisoning. Other symptoms I had only on vacation was extreme bleeding gums. One time, brushing my teeth, the sink looked like someone punched me in the mouth. The most alarming was one time, waiting in line at the valet, my legs gave out on me. I was on the ground paralyzed from the waist down!
Once I suspected mercury poisoning, it was confirmed when asking my son, who also ate just as much canned tuna as me, if his limbs went dead at night and he said yes, weekly. Now that I had figured out that mercury had built up in me, I gave up tuna, and set about learning to chelate them, trying the usual suggested protocol, with vitamin C
and cilantro, but it only made things worse, circulating them and assuring another dead arm that night. I really had no recourse, except to keep any further metals from accumulating, and further reading on the subject I realized there were surely other metals that had built up too like aluminum and iron. So the first thing I did was get rid of my pots and pans, including my cast iron skillets, and set out, with my magnet in hand, to make my "investment" in safe cookware, once piece at a time.
"There are two main types of stainless steel, magnetic and nonmagnetic. The nonmagnetic form has a very high nickel content, and nickel is allergenic and carcinogenic. It is much more toxic than iron or aluminum. You can use a little "refrigerator magnet" to test your pans. The magnet will stick firmly to the safer type of pan." -Ray Peat
Be sure when buying magnetic stainless steel cookware that the sides are magnetic as well. Makers will usually put the safe metal just on the bottom just to say it's magnetic. Finding pieces with the sides magnetic too is like finding treasue. Once you do find a safe piece, with magnetic sides and bottom, don't be fooled into buying the whole set, because there can be only bottom magnetic pieces withing a set.
As time went on I realized vitamin C in fruit, especially citrus and even supplimetal C would give me that numb arm at night, so I avoided vitamin C, or at least strategized having them in the morning, hoping it would clear out by the evening. I noticed other patterns like taking any herbs, aspirin or NSAIDs at bedtime or in the middle of the night would have my arm dead within the hour, so I stopped all of that. Then I came across this Ray Peat quote, and that is when things turned around......
"Milk, orange juice, and coffee safely accelerate the removal of heavy metals from the tissues. Everyone's body accumulates PUFA's, which progressively interfere with metabolism and raise TSH. Iron, as well as other heavy metals (except for copper) tends to accumulate. Drinking coffee also helps to shift the hormone balance in the right direction." -Ray Peat
After reading that quote I had realized that upping my milk sometime earlier in the year had made a noticable difference in the frequency of my numb arm showing up nights. I started testing the idea more by having the offending foods and other substances chased down with a glass of milk, and to my relief, it worked, with no dead arm! The milk worked time and time again! I don't know how much heavy metals are still inside of me, but I steer away from any tuna, make sure I don't cook acid things in metal pans and I steer away from suppliments, fortified cereals and grains, NSAID's, deodorant and drink lots of milk now! I am so grateful for that numb arm. It warned me of the perils that were waiting ahead for me, with a horrific list to choose from (linked below), just from mercury! Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease is linked to aluminum, and the list goes on and on.
"Other heavy metals, including lead and aluminum, are toxic; pans and dishes should be chosen carefully." -Ray Peat
Mercury Toxicity Symptoms | Groton Wellness
Symptoms Recognized by the ADA Mercury stores in the body in the following order: In the kidney In the liver In neurological tissue In the GI tract In the rest of the body tissues Symptoms related to mercury poisoning are vast; however, even the American Dental Association (ADA) admits to the...
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