It’s an industrial world out there. Few pristine places are left on Earth, and even there, the winds of industry blow. Luckily, we have answers.
Obviously, sunshine, exercise, a truly healthy diet, and a happy, mindful kinetic lifestyle are lobby-level, yet illness can begin in the best of us when toxic chemical intake and auto-generated wastes overwhelm the capacity for elimination. In other words, the rate of elimination must meet or exceed input, or toxins accumulate. Amalgam fillings, air and water pollution, smoking, eating fish and processed foods, pesticides, battlefield toxins, radiation, and drug residues commonly lead to cancers, heart/artery disease, autism, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), candidiasis, viral infections, autoimmune disorders, etc. These conditions can logically and practically be prevented, improved, or reversed by expeditious elimination of the offending molecules.
The term “cleanse” usually causes us to think of “bowel” cleanse with strong laxatives and dreadful colonics traditionally used to address gross elimination problems. The intestinal tract can become a plumber’s nightmare, too, considering that vitamin C doses exceeding bowel tolerance leave one clean as a whistle in a few hours.
Attention then zooms in on the intestinal floral population and its care and feeding of the good guys and starvation of pathogens. This is done by eliminating sugars and processed carbs (gluten/GM grains) and killing yeasts and other bad guys directly with oregano oil or oxygen-releasing products.
Then focus on healing the cells lining the intestines that otherwise leak toxins, pathogens, emulsified fats, and proteins directly into the bloodstream to source allergies and autoimmune disorders. Cells regenerate in response to saturated fats like butter, coconut oil, and omega-3 fats, high-fiber leafy greens and green juices with spirulina, intermittent fasting, bone/cartilage soups, raw milks/yogurts, minerals like magnesium, selenium, zinc, potassium, and manganese, vitamins C and E, and other phyto-antioxidants like curcuminoids, carotenoids, and cannabinoids.
Flush
“Flush” commonly refers to liver and kidney cleansing. These organs are targeted with various herbal/olive oil flushes. R-alpha lipoic acid, milk thistle, beets, liver, and baking soda help restore kidney function.
Sweating
“Sweating” and sauna raise body temperature, dump wastes, and stimulate all biochemical activity and circulation of blood and lymph.
- Hot baths of Epsom salts or dead sea salts and soaking in ocean water draw out toxins while infusing alkalizing magnesium; all transdermally.
- Sunbathing raises body temperature when photons, at various wavelengths from infrared to ultraviolet, penetrate the skin to not only produce vitamin D, but also entrain body frequencies and energize our predominant water fraction. UV and radiant heat make water’s charge, polarity, and conductivity stronger so that blood, lymph, and other body fluids become thinner. This speeds circulation moving oxygen-rich blood in and waste products out.
- Exercise, massage, and quick temperature shifts like a sauna followed by plunging into cold water agitate fluids that become stagnant during periods of inactivity. Hot peppers are also great for enhancing circulation.
Still, in spite of cleanses, flushes, and sauna, metals and toxins will remain lodged in body fat, bones, nerve tissues, and cell membranes. A double-barreled defense is required. First, mobilize them, then chelate them.
Chelation does not occur efficiently without mobilization.
Cellular detoxification is initiated when a flood of electrons (using mega-vitamin C/baking soda) moves materials out of tissues and organs into the bloodstream and into the kidneys or the intestines to be snatched by chelators. This electron-driven liberation of metals is punctuated by electron-stealing bursts of oxidation (mega-vitamin C-generated peroxides, hydrogen peroxide, MMS chlorite, ozone) that disassemble organic poisons, pathogens, fibrin overgrowth, and cell debris. Oxidative bursts also spark redox signaling to provoke the release of more in-house antioxidants like SOD and glutathione and awaken other dormant genes to produce protective enzymes.
“Chelate” really just means “to grab” or “claw on to” toxins.
Chelation Therapy
Chelation therapy generally refers to IV infusions of EDTA, DMSA, DMPS, etc., that rapidly mobilize and attach toxins and, unfortunately, vital minerals that must be concurrently resupplied.
The practice has been maligned by conventional medicine in apparent ignorance of the disruption minute quantities of toxins wield upon normal physiology at the molecular level, namely acidity, free radical predation, oxidative stress, and inflammation.
Chelation therapy has been used to treat heavy metal poisoning but is not recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of disease. The FDA also refuses to admit the connection between mercury, cadmium, aluminum, etc., and a raft of conditions caused by politically protected industries. Fortunately, everything you need for personal detoxification is freely available.
Chelation can be accomplished without IVs by employing many common substances such as chlorella, clays, charcoal, shilajit/humates, cilantro, and zeolites, which bind to toxins along with sulfur compounds in R-alpha lipoic acid, garlic, onions, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), and N-acetylcysteine (NAC).
Proteolytic enzymes like papain, bromelain, or nattokinase can help free metals sequestered beneath fibrin films.
The word “detox” has long been associated with “drying out” alcoholics, rehab, and addictions. Today it’s all about improving inner charge terrain so cells can get more oxygen, regain functionality, and self-heal. A wide variety of supplements and physical and psychological treatments fall under the detoxification umbrella, and indeed seemingly disconnected approaches all lead to the same goal.
Toxins are foreign molecules (like aluminum, fluorine, mercury, lead, etc., and a host of organic poisons), damaged molecules (oxidized/trans fats, protein/fat fragments), metabolic waste products, and excessive acids and free radicals of exogenous (radiations) and endogenous (immune response/inflammation) origins. These molecules must ultimately be transformed and eliminated at the atomic level, or the organism will suffer oxidative stress (inflammation), the root of almost every disease.
Hair analysis is invaluable in:
- Identifying metal/mineral presence.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of your efforts to evict heavy metals and normalize magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium levels. Many times blood work does not detect the extent of contamination.
Interestingly, younger individuals commonly hold significant metal burdens since this generation has known only higher levels of toxins over the last 20 years compared to their predecessors.
Once follow-up hair tests report healthy levels in all categories and symptoms magically disappear, you will have certain proof—whether the FDA likes it or not.
These alternative practices and “home remedies” require a bit of skill in use and an understanding of their actions. Things like chicken soup, apple cider vinegar, cayenne, garlic, Epsom salts, or vitamin C/baking soda have specific healing properties when used in appropriate, usually unusually large quantities, and taken regularly and in concert. Include as many as needed while focusing on mineral supplementation and the key elements of mobilization and chelation. I prefer detoxing at home over humiliating rectal intrusion or rapid IV chelation, slowly, gently, and inexpensively for extended periods. Just me.
Detoxification is a survival strategy and should become a way of life. We have 365 chances a year to get it right, to do something, to take action, to clean our inner environments, to maintain our quality of life, and to allow cells to self-heal.