Our environment is increasingly becoming contaminated with toxic elements such as uranium, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, lead and aluminium

Our environment is increasingly becoming contaminated with toxic elements such as uranium, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, lead and aluminium.  Even "clean, green New Zealand" is really a dirty place when you look closely enough. Please have a listen to the interview that follows:

  

HTMA from a man who works the land - Arsenic from treated
timber posts, aluminium from fertiliser.  The high Fe, Mn and Cr
may be mostly due to the use of welding and cutting torches.
The elevated Na and K are due to stress responses - hardly
surprising!

While I may not agree with everything the interviewer and interviewee are saying, they are spot-on with regards to their concerns about the ever-increasing contamination of our environment with toxins like mercury and aluminium and the potential threats to mammals, including Human Beings. I do share their concerns about the use of aluminium deodorants, especially about the armpits and breasts by women.  Its just not a good idea.

While it does make sense to get rid of your aluminium cookware and to switch to non-toxic deodorants, I urge you not to panic.  Unless you work in a toxic environment such as an engineering workshop, or on the farm, the chances are you are okay.  We all react differently to exposure to toxins.  Some of us accumulate them while others excrete them as fast as they are being absorbed.  It comes down to our nutritional status (or lack of!) and the health of our eliminative organs (liver, kidneys) as to how efficiently our bodies can handle toxins and excrete them.

The Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is the best test available for determining if you are apt to accumulate toxins such as mercury - and to determine if there is a build-up of anything undesirable and what to do about - other than to blindly panic!

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My supplements are making me feel sick - not better

"The supplements are not really working for "X" at this stage- he feels they are making him sick.

Since commencing the program he is feeling worse, tired and lethargic. He said he felt way better before taking them. Is this possible?

I suggested he just take half of them. I’m sure if he is telling himself he hates the pills, then his body will reject them!
Any thoughts?"
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Gary responds:
How "X" is feeling is not unexpected.

The profile for "X" indicates he is dirt rock bottom in many nutrients, as well as having a number of significant imbalances that cause symptoms such as lack of energy, poor digestion, insomnia, muscle weakness and generally not feeling well. In his case I would expect these symptoms to be quite severe at times and this pattern will continue for as long these imbalances and general state of depeletion persists.

He also has quite high levels of mercury, lead and aluminium. While they are within the "reference range", we have to take account that he is running close to empty on most of the "healthy" minerals. Toxic metals pair off in the body with minerals like iron, zinc and selenium. Along with sulphur and various vitamins such as vitamin E, these minerals help neutralise toxic metals and assist the liver with excreting them by rendering them partially soluble. Incidentally; low levels of sulphur, zinc etc may help explain why he has had an accumulation of these heavy metals in the first place. The other factor, of course, is exposure to these metals through work and food (tuna, for example).

Now that he is taking all those dietary supplements with the right balance of trace nutrients, including vitamins, and changing his diet as per the report guidelines, it is quite likely that these heavy metals which are sequestered in tissue like fat and bone are now being pulled out into solution. As his Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis report warns, there may be a temporary flare-up of symptoms while these toxins are mobilised and removed. It may be weeks, if not months, before he begins the upward climb.

The process of restoring and maintaining health and fitness can be regarded as being similar to the sharemarket (refer chart). There will always be ups and downs, some sharp and some deep. It pays to focus on the overall trend as the months and years tick by and not be distracted or too despondent each time there is a dip in progress. Of course, attention to lifestyle and nutrition will reduce the number of dips and level out the troughs while accentuating the ups.

In answer to your query about halving the dosages: The answer is a resounding "YES!" Drop the dosages by half while sticking to the diet plan, once symptoms abate sufficently, increase the dose back to the recommended levels. Give the programme three months of steady attention with regualr reports to me. At about three months we will sit abck and review progress and take it from there!

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Do vaccines cause autism?

"Our child was developing normally until he received his vaccination shots"
This a statement that I have heard many times over the years from the parents of autistic children. I have been tempted many times to enter the vaccination debate; but have mostly refrained from doing so until now.

We have not vaccinated our children, preferring to concentrate on healthy diet and lifestyles and natural exposure to childhood diseases such as chicken pox and mumps.

When I do a hair tissue mineral analysis on people, not a single one has been free of mercury, a component of vaccines. These also contain the other powerful neurotoxin; aluminium. It just beggars good sense to pump toxic metals into sensitive developing brains.

Here is a news video about the vaccine controversy:

Here is the best article I have ever read by a health professional - "Autism, Vaccines, and Robert F Kennedy Jr."by Jeffrey Dach MD.

Here is a compelling video by a family that was affected by autism. This carries a message of hope.

Please pass this article onto others.

Something fishy about smelly feet treatment advice

Here is an excerpt from the following medical advice column:
Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin: Should you wear socks with your running shoes
"The bacteria that rot your old skin grow luxuriously when the skin is wet. If you have a problem with foot odor, try pouring a small amount of powder into the toes of your socks before you put them on will help to keep your feet dry during the day and prevent bacteria from growing. Avoid wearing the same pair of shoes more often than every other day so they can dry out between use. You can also kill the bacteria by applying a common deodorant containing? aluminum chlorohydrate to your feet at bedtime and sleeping with socks on."

Here is my Question:
"Dear Gabe,
Would it not be better to wash the feet properly and regularly with soap and water than resorting to aluminium-based products?
Gary"


Here is the reply"
"So far, no harm (but skin irritation) from using aluminum chlorohydrate. It shuts down pores and decreases sweating. Soap has been tested for thousands of years and is safe. However, soap does not decrease sweating".

Here are my comments:
The pores of the skin shut down for very good reasons: Aluminium, like mercury and lead, is highly toxic to the body; especially the nervous system. While most aluminium products are relatively inert, this is not necessarily the case when mixed with highly acidic human sweat and left to percolate in a pair of warm socks overnight. It is inveitable that some of this highly toxic metal will get into the body.

There is far too much exposure to this toxic substance going on, beginning in the first few years of life. Aluminium is added to vaccines as an immune system irritant to augement the immune response to a vaccine. While one shot may be considered "safe" for a child, it make no sense to give a child multiple doses of such a dangerous neurotoxin while the brain is rapidly developing and at its most vulnerable. Aluminium is sometimes added to drinking water to give it a clear sparkle and it is a common anti perspirant. If acidic food is prepared or stored in aluminium pots, aluminium can leach into the food.

Aluminium based underarm anti perspirants are linked to breast cancer. Aluminium is associated with increased rates of neurological disease.

So my advice for smelly feet is this: wash the feet often with soapy water and change your socks often - and stay well away from aluminium based anti perspirants.

More practical advice will be written soon about what to do about smelly feet and how to decrease the sweating.

Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin: Should you wear socks with your running shoes?

Dear Gabe,
Would it not be better to wash the feet properly and regularly with soap and water than resorting to aluminium-based products?
Gary
Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin: Should you wear socks with your running shoes?