Heavy Metals and Chemical Sensitivity
When functioning properly, our body processes and excretes all waste materials & toxins (from inside and outside the body) efficiently. This allows our body to remain in equilibrium.
When the body fails to eliminate wastes and other toxins, these substances cause a decrease in function of one or more body systems, including the liver detoxification system. Often this happens because the body becomes overwhelmed by things that need eliminating and it cannot keep up. In other instances there is a single event, a genetic predisposition, or metabolic challenges (low body temperature) that cause the body to be unable to eliminate waste and toxins quickly enough.
Toxins do damage to the body. When the body can not eliminate them fast enough, it stores them in the tissues (fat, nervous system, kidneys, thyroid, adrenals, bones, etc) to get them out of the blood circulation. This is a protective mechanism because it protects us from acute poisoning, however, when the toxin level in the tissues gets high enough, the body reaches a state where “total load” is too high to ignore.
Many symptoms of chronic illnesses are the body’s response to a high “total load”.
Sometimes we must help the body with elimination.
This process is called Cleansing, Purification, or Detoxification.
Cleansing often involves: Colon cleansing, specific diet and supplements, saunas and sometimes chelation or Biotherapuetic drainage (a European technique).
I have extensive training in Environmental medicine and Cleansing and I offer a wide variety of options for cleansing: from “Detox Light” to serious cleansing and chelation for chemically sensitive individuals.
I have total chronic body pain and chronic fatigue. I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalsia. Then I was diagnosed with Chronic Epstein Barr. No one ever has the answer. The one thing is Chelation Therapy helps my pain level go down for a few days.
I am also sensitive to metals on my skin and always have been. Is there a conection on why Chelation therapy helps the pain
Hi Susan,
thanks for commenting. Yes, there is a reliable connection between heavy metal burden and chronic pain levels as well as fatigue, low immune function (which allows you to get chronic infections with things like EBV), and many other issues. Heavy metals both interfere with calcium / magnesium function in your muscles (making it easy for them to be chronically tight) and also interferes with mitochondrial function.
Please take a look at the MTHFR post. I very much suspect you have genetic reasons why you have accumulated a metal burden. MTHFR is an important piece of the genetic puzzle when it comes to detoxifying, and is very easy to treat.
Dr. Andrews,
You don’t know how much this means to me. I have been sick for six years. Doctors and Medical Specialists know nothing. It has been so frustrating. I have never been even able to validate if Epstein Barr causes body wide pain. Also about 94% of the population have Epstein Barr. Why couldn’t anyone help me? You are the first to really answer my question. Even the Specialist that does the Chelation Therapy didn’t put anything together. I started thinking about it.
Thank you so very much
I went to my doctor and gave him the information. He ordered tests for heavy metals in my body. It is a 24 hour test collecting my urine. I just can’t believe that finally someone can help me. I have almost died twice in two years and have been hospitalized. The last time the Emergency doctor didn’t think that I would make it.
It has stolen my life for six years. You say it is easy to cure. This makes me so happy because hopefully soon I will have my life back again. The pain never stops 24/7 and I have been on pain medications for six years to the point they don’t work anymore. Chelation therapy is the only thing that works. You would have thought that the Specialist that gives me this therapy would have figured it out.
I had no hope left of ever being well. How does this type of thing get cured.
Thank you so very very much. You have given my life back to me.
Susan Pateracki