Heavy Metal Intoxification
Heavy metals are are elements that are naturally found in the earth. They’re used in many modern-day applications, such as agriculture, medicine, and industry. Your body even naturally contains some. Zinc, iron, and copper, for example, are necessary for regular body function, as long as they aren’t present in toxic amounts.
Heavy metal poisoning occurs when your body’s soft tissues absorb too much of a particular metal.
The most common metals that the human body can absorb in toxic amounts are:
- Mercury
- Lead
- Cadmium
- Arsenic
What causes heavy metal intoxification?
The heavy metals most commonly associated with poisoning of humans are lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium.
Heavy metal poisoning may occur as a result of industrial exposure, air or water pollution, foods, medicines, improperly coated food containers, or the ingestion of lead-based paints.
What are the symptoms of heavy metal intoxification?
Common symptoms across several types of heavy metal poisoning include:
- Diarrhea
- Nausea and/ or vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Shortness of breath
- Tingling in your hands and feet
- Chills
- Weakness
Children with heavy metal poisoning may have unusually formed or weakened bones.
Pregnant people may also have a miscarriage or deliver prematurely.
How do i know if i have a heavy metal intoxification?
Doctors can usually check for heavy metal poisoning with a simple blood test known as a heavy metals panel or heavy metal toxicity test.
To do the test, they’ll take a small blood sample and test it for signs of heavy metals. If you have symptoms of heavy metal poisoning, but your blood test only shows low levels, you doctor might do some additional testing. These may include:
- Kidney function tests
- Liver function studies
- Urine analysis
- hair analysis
- Fingernail analysis
- Electroardiograms
- X-rays
At ROZE BioHealth Clinic we also use a very pioneering DOCTOR’S DATA hair testing to detect toxic elements in your body.
With respect to its contained elements, hair is essentially an excretory tissue rather than a functional tissue. Hair element analysis provides important information which, in conjunction with symptoms and other laboratory values, can assist the physician with an early diagnosis of physiological disorders associated with aberrations in essential and toxic element metabolism.
As protein is synthesized in the hair follicle, elements are incorporated permanently into the hair with no further exchange or equilibration with other tissues. Scalp hair is easy to sample, and because it grows an average of one to two cm per month, it contains a “temporal record” of element metabolism and exposure to toxic elements. Nutrient elements including magnesium, chromium, zinc, copper and selenium are obligatory co-factors for hundreds of important enzymes and also are essential for the normal functions of vitamins. The levels of these elements in hair are correlated with levels in organs and other tissues.
Toxic elements may be 200 to 300 times more highly concentrated in hair than in blood or urine. Therefore, hair is the tissue of choice for detection of recent exposure to elements such as arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, lead, antimony and mercury. The CDC acknowledges the value of hair mercury levels as a maternal and infant marker for exposure to neurotoxic methylmercury from fish
How is heavy metal intoxification treated?
- For mild cases of heavy metal poisoning, just eliminating your exposure to heavy metals can be enough to treat the condition. Depending on the underlying cause, this might mean taking some time away from work or changing your diet.
Your doctor can give you more specific recommendations on how to reduce your exposure.
- For more severe cases, the standard treatment is chelation therapy. This involves giving medication, either through a pill or injection, that binds to the heavy metals in your body. These medications are known as chelators. As they bind to the metals, chelators help to usher them out of your body as waste
At ROZE Bio Health Clinic we have established a specific DETOX PROTOCOL.
It will help you eliminate toxins from the body and stimulate the emunctory organs that treat the waste and promote drainage by facilitating the elimination of stool and urine.
This great interior cleansing helps to maintain your health.
Our detox protocol is based on 3 majors naturally active ingredients : Alpha Lipoic Acid, N-acetylcystine and chlorella.
You will be provided with a complete detox prescription for a 3 months treatment.
