CHELATING HEAVY METALS

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“PCB-containing FLBs that are currently in use have exceeded their designed life span. Sudden rupture of PCB-containing FLBs may pose health hazards to occupants and is difficult and costly to clean up. EPA recommends removing PCB-containing FLBs from buildings as soon as possible to prevent potential inhalation or dermal exposure.

Even intact PCB-containing FLBs may emit small amounts of PCBs into the air during normal use. Removal of PCB-containing FLBs, as part of lighting upgrades or a stand-alone project, is an investment that may pay off with long-term benefits to students, school staff, the community, and the environment.“

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) | US EPA

CFLs can help you save money, use less energy, reduce light bulb changes, and lower greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change. Learn about proper cleanup, recycling and disposal, labels, mercury, and UV radiation.

www.epa.gov

 

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5 brands whose chocolate may contain high levels of lead, cadmium

Trader Joe's: Dark Chocolate 72% Cacao (192% of the lead MADL) and The Dark Chocolate Lover's Chocolate 85% Cacao (127% of the lead MADL, 229% of the cadmium MADL)
Hershey: Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate (265% of the lead MADL)
Lindt: Excellence Dark Chocolate
85% Cocoa (166% of the lead MADL) and Excellence Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa (116% of the cadmium MADL)
Godiva: Signature Dark Chocolate 72% Cacao (146% of the lead MADL)
Dove: Promises Deeper Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao (112% of the cadmium MADL)

5 brands—including Trader Joe's—whose dark chocolate tested high for lead, cadmium

Over 15 chocolate products are being accused of having dangerous levels of lead and cadmium, including these two Trader Joe's products.

www.cnbc.com

 

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“Similar to Similar to food in a plastic takeout container, paper takeaway cups also release microplastics when exposed to hot liquids. That means your morning cup of hot coffee taken in a disposable cup is adding to your personal microplastic consumption – perhaps on a daily basis. The lining in most of these paper cups are made with HDPE grade plastic – which is considered “safe,” but has been shown to leak estrogenic chemicals – and some even contain heavy metals.“

10 Simple Ways to Avoid Microplastics in Your Everyday Life - EcoWatch

While some larger-scale steps have been taken to limit microplastics – such as the microbead ban implemented in 2015 for rinse-off body products – simple steps can be taken to cut down on exposure to microbeads in your daily life, and keep them from entering the natural environment.

www.ecowatch.com

 

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“The role of toxic metals in brain inflammation is well established (e.g., aluminum, lead, mercury” -Ray Peat

 

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“Coffee drinkers, for example, have been found to have lower levels of cadmium in their kidneys than people who don’t use coffee, and coffee is known to inhibit the absorption of iron by the intestine, helping to prevent iron overload.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Coffee drinkers, for example, have been found to have lower levels of cadmium in their kidneys than people who don’t use coffee, and coffee is known to inhibit the absorption of iron by the intestine, helping to prevent iron overload.” -Ray Peat

Does that mean that coffee prevents cadmium tissue excretion and therefore it's less present in kidneys because kidneys don't have to filter it out ?
Or does that mean that it favors cadmium excretion and therefore it's less present in kidney tissues ?

 

[Warrior]

Regular use of a sauna after consuming niacin and a binding agent like activated charcoal midway along with lots and lots of high quality water should be anyones first port of call for heavy metal detoxification.

A great "side effect" of this is you'll notice improvements across the board in your biomarkers and body function as the skin is your largest detoxification organ.

 

[Santosh]

Regular use of a sauna after consuming niacin and a binding agent like activated charcoal midway along with lots and lots of high quality water should be anyones first port of call for heavy metal detoxification.

A great "side effect" of this is you'll notice improvements across the board in your biomarkers and body function as the skin is your largest detoxification organ.

Would a very hot steam room work just as well ?
I much prefer the humidity.

 

[Warrior]

Would a very hot steam room work just as well ?
I much prefer the humidity.

You're free to try it but they're not the same in scope or application therefore neither will the effects be.

 

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“Most toxic metals are inseparable components of the environment; they are non-biodegradable, and therefore, human and wildlife exposures to these chemicals are difficult to eliminate. Cadmium (Cd) can be found in water, food, and tobacco smoke and has great varieties of applications in diverse industrial operations including electroplating, alloys, battery production, paints, color pigments, and plastics [1][2][3]. Toxic effects of Cd in the human body depend on the dose ingested, tissue distribution, concentration achieved in target tissues, and excretion rate [1,2,4]. Testicular functions have been reported to be compromised by Cd within few hours of exposure even when other tissues were unaffected [5,6], and compared to other heavy metals, Cd require much less time to cause damage on the gonadal system [7,8]. ...“


“Furthermore, caffeine protected testicular and epididymal tissues against cadmium-induced oxidative damage via upregulation of antioxidant protein expression. [12] Normal sexual and reproductive functions involve neurological mechanisms; hence, impairment in these processes may induce sexual dysfunction and infertility. The use of antidepressants has been associated with some sexual side effects. ...“

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232704990_Caffeine_reduces_cadmium_accumulation_in_the_organism_and_enhances_the_levels_of_antioxidant_protein_expression_in_the_epididymis

 

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Thank you J.R.K, for this very good information….

“Methyl blocking means these things slow or reduce your body’s ability to methylate.

In order to methylate, one needs to identify methyl blockers and remove them bit by bit. As these methyl blockers are removed, methylation may proceed as it needs to.“

“Methyl blocking:

Homocysteine
Nitrous oxide
Mercury
Copper
Cadmium
Aluminum
Lead
Acetylaldehyde (from yeast and alcohol)
Hydrogen peroxide (a free radical / oxidative stress)
Nitric oxide (product of NOS enzyme)
TNF alpha (inflammation)
IL-6 (inflammation)
LPS (bacterial infections)“

Methyl Group, Methylation, Methyl Trapping: What Are They? - Dr Lynch

There is a lot of confusion around ‘methyl group’, ‘methyl donor’, ‘methylation’. I’ve created a quick cheat sheet here for you. Methyl group: Carbon + 3 hydrogens (CH3) Methyl donor: a substance that is capable of donating a methyl group to another compound. Simply because something has a...

www.drbenlynch.com

 

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“However, many metals are known to disrupt our body’s hormonal balance. Cadmium, Cobalt, Chromium, Iron, Manganese, and Zinc are found in significantly higher levels in breast cancer tissue than in benign, non-cancerous tissues (Pasha et al. 2008). Metals, such as cobalt and chromium, increase the proliferation of breast cancer cells (Martin et al. 2003). Likewise, these metals also increase the stimulation of estrogen receptors, indirectly increasing the activity of hormones in the body. In fact, drugs used for blocking estrogen receptors are not able to block all the hormonal effects of these metals”

Causes of Cancer: Heavy Metals & Coffee Enemas | Dr. Ceaser

Metals contribute to the formation of cancer in many ways. It is important for every cancer patient to have proper provoked heavy metal...

drceaser.com

 

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“Moreover, tomato has been reported to produce metal chelating proteins and phytochelatins when exposed to heavy metal ions [86,87]. In fact the oral administration of tomato has been shown to significantly reduce the accumulation of heavy metals (Cd, Pb and Hg) in the liver of rats [88].”

Dietary Strategies for the Treatment of Cadmium and Lead Toxicity

Cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) are toxic heavy metals that cause adverse health effects in humans and animals. Chelation therapy, the conventional treatment for heavy metal toxicity, is reported to have a number of safety and efficacy issues. Recent studies ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

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Does that mean that coffee prevents cadmium tissue excretion and therefore it's less present in kidneys because kidneys don't have to filter it out ?
Or does that mean that it favors cadmium excretion and therefore it's less present in kidney tissues ?

Not sure about this. RP has talked about the coffee filters having some ability to keep heavy metals from leaching into coffee. Considering this, and that most of the worlds population drinks coffee, AND also considering that instant coffee is higher in cadmium than brewed coffee, it might just be that coffee filter that is making the big difference.

 

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“Eating low-fat seafood (sole, whitefish, turbot, scallops, oysters, lobster, shrimp, squid, etc.) once in a while can provide useful trace minerals, without much risk. However, fish from some parts of the ocean contain industrial contaminants in the fat, and large fish such as tuna, swordfish, Chilean sea bass and halibut contain toxic amounts of mercury in the muscles. Chilean sea bass (Patagonian toothfish) is very high in fat, too.

About ten years ago I met a young man with a degenerative brain disease, and was interested in the fact that he (working on a fishing boat) had been eating almost a pound of salmon per day for several years. There is now enough information regarding the neurotoxic effects of fish oil to justify avoidance of the fatty fish.” -Ray Peat

 

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Not ingesting heavy metals would seem the simpler way to not having them accumulate in the body. At about the 16:15 minute mark in this Ray Peat interview posted by @Warrior, he says vitamin C supplements is full of them….


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSfV43Quuo

 

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Not ingesting heavy metals would seem the simpler way to not having them accumulate in the body. At about the 16:15 minute mark in this Ray Peat interview posted by @Warrior, he says vitamin C supplements is full of them….


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSfV43Quuo

I'm trying to find this paper that Ray refers to, to see if I can decipher it. My only issue with what Ray is saying is that there is many people that take multi-gram doses of Vitamin C but they aren't dying of mercury poisoning. e.g. Linus Pauling who took 18 grams of Vitamin C per day for many years.

 

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I'm trying to find this paper that Ray refers to, to see if I can decipher it. My only issue with what Ray is saying is that there is many people that take multi-gram doses of Vitamin C but they aren't dying of mercury poisoning. e.g. Linus Pauling who took 18 grams of Vitamin C per day for many years.

Ray Peat said that the doses he USE to take in his thirties, was 50 grams and it did wonders for him. He says something has changed since, and vitamin C isn’t what it was back then. Who knows what cheap vitamin C that woman was taking to have had that damaging dose.

 

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“Besides nicotine, e-cigarettes can contain harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including:

*ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs.

*flavorants such as diacetyl, a chemical linked to serious lung disease.

*volatile organic compounds.

*heavy metals, such as nickel, tin, and lead.

Know the Risks: E-cigarettes & Young People | U.S. Surgeon General’s Report

E-cigarettes and youth don't mix. It's time to get the science-based facts from the U.S. Surgeon General.

e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov