Removing lead from your body
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As for clays, I've read that calcium bentonite clay works very well also, so much so that in the instructions for mixing I've found suggest not even using metal utensils for measuring and mixing, as it will absorb metals from the utensils. Mixing it with the diatomaceous earth together is supposed to be a very strong detoxifier, in smoothies is a good way to ingest it, on their own they're pretty nasty. A word of caution, they will plug you up pretty solid if you don't increase your fiber intake.
Having worked at a lead smelter for years and years, I can tell you what works for those with high blood-lead levels:
1. milk (and other high calcium foods, assuming you have good stomach acid levels) - it partly eliminates lead from your body and partly drives the lead into your bones. In years gone by they would actually give milk rations to smelter workers to help control blood lead levels. Your bones are continuously ripped apart and rebuilt, so that lead will slowly come out and be eliminated by your body, assuming you don't have NEW lead inputs (over years and years). If you don't have good stomach acid, then soluble calcium supplements work (calcium citrate, for example).
2. EDTA - one form of chelation therapy originally developed for lead exposure in the ship building industry. The intravenous treatments work best, but you need a lot of them (typically 10-20 rounds are done around here). That is a lot of time on the IV, and it depletes your body of other minerals too. Oral EDTA also works for modest lead levels, albeit more slowly. You need to take the Ca-EDTA and NOT the Na-EDTA form, as the sodium form will strip calcium from your body and can make you very sick very quickly. Available in tablets and capsules, best taken at night apart from any food.
3. Chlorophyll - known to bind lead and other heavy metals when taken orally. Not for more than very minor lead levels, as it is slow (months). Truly high chlorophyll foods are things like wheat grass (modest), spirulina (an algae, medium) and chlorella (another algae, among the highest levels). Alfalfa is also not too shabby (on the wheat grass level), but could have other side effects in men due to phytoestrogens.
4. cilantro - as mentioned above. It has a little chlorophyll but seems to also have other stuff that helps the body excrete lead. It's action is weak. Parsley should work similarly. You need to eat a lot (think half a cup or a cup a day). There are "natural" protocols that have you eat both cilantro and chlorella, claiming some synergistic benefit, but I am not aware of any scientific studies.
So - if you want to eliminate some trace amounts of lead, some cilantro, parsley, wheatgrass and such (and milk). If you have a little concern for a little lead, then milk, lots of chlorella and the like. If you have a significant concern (blood leads in the 30+ ng/dl) then get at least oral Ca-EDTA or intravenous EDTA treatment. If you have high blood leads in the 40-50 ng/dl levels, then do everything, including emergency intravenous EDTA.
It all depends on what your exposure, exposure time and base health levels are. I have gotten high blood leads despite religious use of personal protective equipment, and I believe it was mainly from lead oxide contaminated dusts that I would end up breathing in/ingesting from my coveralls, boots etc. whenever I took OFF my PPC. I haven't seen a lot of data suggesting casual contact with some lead, like in casting or shooting, that would give you big lead oxide dosages like hanging around a lead smelter would for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week...
1. milk (and other high calcium foods, assuming you have good stomach acid levels) - it partly eliminates lead from your body and partly drives the lead into your bones. In years gone by they would actually give milk rations to smelter workers to help control blood lead levels. Your bones are continuously ripped apart and rebuilt, so that lead will slowly come out and be eliminated by your body, assuming you don't have NEW lead inputs (over years and years). If you don't have good stomach acid, then soluble calcium supplements work (calcium citrate, for example).
2. EDTA - one form of chelation therapy originally developed for lead exposure in the ship building industry. The intravenous treatments work best, but you need a lot of them (typically 10-20 rounds are done around here). That is a lot of time on the IV, and it depletes your body of other minerals too. Oral EDTA also works for modest lead levels, albeit more slowly. You need to take the Ca-EDTA and NOT the Na-EDTA form, as the sodium form will strip calcium from your body and can make you very sick very quickly. Available in tablets and capsules, best taken at night apart from any food.
3. Chlorophyll - known to bind lead and other heavy metals when taken orally. Not for more than very minor lead levels, as it is slow (months). Truly high chlorophyll foods are things like wheat grass (modest), spirulina (an algae, medium) and chlorella (another algae, among the highest levels). Alfalfa is also not too shabby (on the wheat grass level), but could have other side effects in men due to phytoestrogens.
4. cilantro - as mentioned above. It has a little chlorophyll but seems to also have other stuff that helps the body excrete lead. It's action is weak. Parsley should work similarly. You need to eat a lot (think half a cup or a cup a day). There are "natural" protocols that have you eat both cilantro and chlorella, claiming some synergistic benefit, but I am not aware of any scientific studies.
So - if you want to eliminate some trace amounts of lead, some cilantro, parsley, wheatgrass and such (and milk). If you have a little concern for a little lead, then milk, lots of chlorella and the like. If you have a significant concern (blood leads in the 30+ ng/dl) then get at least oral Ca-EDTA or intravenous EDTA treatment. If you have high blood leads in the 40-50 ng/dl levels, then do everything, including emergency intravenous EDTA.
It all depends on what your exposure, exposure time and base health levels are. I have gotten high blood leads despite religious use of personal protective equipment, and I believe it was mainly from lead oxide contaminated dusts that I would end up breathing in/ingesting from my coveralls, boots etc. whenever I took OFF my PPC. I haven't seen a lot of data suggesting casual contact with some lead, like in casting or shooting, that would give you big lead oxide dosages like hanging around a lead smelter would for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week...
I agree 100%. I cast 20,000+ projectiles a year, plus lots of fishing lures. My lead serum has never maxed 2 ug/Dl. Last year it was 1.7. I rarely shoot indoors but I know nearly all of the "regular" indoor shooters I know are all over the limit for blood lead serum. Over 10 ug/Dl is bad. I'm not even close and I process at least a half ton of dirty lead each year.
I was exposed to high concentrations of lead from age 9 to 18. It is still coming out of my bones at age 55. I have a lead count reading quite a bit higher than your average person. 1.35 umol/L still evident after nearly 40 years. It has been as high as 6.
Lead is tested by blood test. If they discover high counts it can be tested weekly. It can make you tired quicker, but it didn't slow me down.
Lead is tested by blood test. If they discover high counts it can be tested weekly. It can make you tired quicker, but it didn't slow me down.
My last one was 0.44 umol/L....down from my previous reading of 0.62
You have to be careful with lead.
I was working in Kazakstan in 1996. We had an office at the Geological Survey building in Astana. The Survey had a fire assay lab for doing gold assaying. I was shocked to see that the driveway behind the building was made up of used fire assay cupels. These are 60% lead after they have been used!
People were driving their vehicles over them for years!!!!!!!!!
Any time someone tells me that the communist system was good for their workers I think of that place.
I was working in Kazakstan in 1996. We had an office at the Geological Survey building in Astana. The Survey had a fire assay lab for doing gold assaying. I was shocked to see that the driveway behind the building was made up of used fire assay cupels. These are 60% lead after they have been used!
People were driving their vehicles over them for years!!!!!!!!!
Any time someone tells me that the communist system was good for their workers I think of that place.
And regular ingestion of Rainbow Trout sammages helps.
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Simple blood test
Standard means of testing. Requires a vial with special composite rubber stopper.
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- West Quebec
Okay then I wasn't watching what they did with the blood after they took it..lol
DRRRIIIINNNNK it!........
Donate blood. It can only be done every few months, but each and every time they will pull a pint out of you and with it goes any heavy metals in that blood.
If your lead levels are high, it may not be suitable for transfusions, but they may be able to use your blood for other purposes or at the very worst medical testing and research.
If your lead levels are high, it may not be suitable for transfusions, but they may be able to use your blood for other purposes or at the very worst medical testing and research.
