Remove Heavy Metals with Digestive Cleansing
Heavy metals are toxic metals and elements such as lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadium and mercury. They are found practically everywhere in your environment- in water, food, building materials, air, car emissions, mercury dental fillings, kitchen utensils, animal meat and clothing. They get into your body when you drink, eat and breathe.
Can you believe they even get in through your skin
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You can’t see or taste heavy metals. Neither the USDA nor the FDA have any limits or restrictions on the concentration of heavy metals allowed in organic foods, either. So, the average person can intake 300 micrograms of lead a day.
What Effects Do They have On Your Body?
The effects of their build up in your system can be devastating. Short term, the effects range from nausea, fatigue, difficulty sleeping and/or insomnia and respiratory distress to memory loss. Long term effects vary from permanent brain damage and dysfunction, weakened immune system, poor circulation, heart problems, cancer and other dangerous and degenerative diseases. There are, however, several ways to eliminate the heavy metals from your body using natural healthcare, digestive cleansing, colon cleanses, and detox diets. They are easy to administer and minimally invasive so that even the busiest, most active lifestyle can adapt to them.
What’s The Process For Removing Them?
First of all, if you even think you are experiencing any type of heavy metal poisoning, go get a hair mineral analysis test done. It tells you specifically which heavy metals are built up in your body and how much and illustrates the information in a simple bar graph, which also tells you what the normal, acceptable levels of each metal are. You should also get the analysis done before you start any type of cleanse or nutritional supplement program. This is because the test tells you both which metals have built up in your system and which metals your system lacks.
It can also provide valuable information about your digestive system by telling you what your body absorbs, what it doesn’t and how much.
A colon cleanse uses herbs and/or enemas to remove food and toxins that build up in the body over time. They can help with various digestive ailments that can be caused by the heavy metals.
- bloating
- pain
- cramping
- constipation
- gas
- diarrhea
- colitis
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- and diverticulitis
It may also prevent cancer by removing polyps and promoting overall digestive health. The cleanses remove build up of old fecal matter and drug residue in the intestines and bowels.
This helps to eliminate not only the heavy metals, but constipation, gas, pain and cramping.
Other Things To Remember . . .
There are a number of things to keep in mind and add to your intestinal cleansing ritual. For starters, adequate hydration.
The best way to achieve this is to drink “bottled- at- the- source” water and drink fresh fruit and vegetable juices. You also need to keep your electrolytes and minerals maintained. To do this, you can take vitamin supplements, put a teaspoon of Celtic Sea Salt in your water or juice and put some lemon juice in your water.
During a cleanse, you need to keep your nutrition levels high and stimulate your bowel function. This is easily achieved by not eating meats, dairy or fatty foods. They contain no fiber and clog your system. To stimulate your bowel function and obtain optimal nutrition, take an organic food supplement that contains plant proteins. This supplies both protein and fiber without the fat. It is best to eat as many organic fruits and vegetables as possible. They contain fiber and are full of water. Consider eliminating foods with empty calories and fat. Sugar is the biggest culprit, so you can eliminate soda, snack cakes, candy and cookies.
Detox diets remove toxins and heavy metals in your body. It’s done by eating pure, natural, foods. Buy organic foods during your cleanse. These foods help promote healthy lymph, kidney and liver functions. They are the filters of the body and their optimal function is important for overall digestive health. You can do a detox diet a few different ways. One is to fast, drinking only water or juice. Another is to eliminate certain foods, such as processed and fatty foods, from your diet. Doing this causes the body to burn fat, which can, if left in the body, store toxins. Once it is burned, the toxins move into the bloodstream to be expelled. Also, if you remove metal dental fillings, you remove one more type of heavy metal build up in your body.
The Right Supplements Can Work Too . . .
Nutritional supplements for eliminating heavy metals from your body usually contain some kind of chelating agent. They move through the body, attracting and binding the metals to them. Supplements can come in the form of a pill, intravenous injection, transdermally (on the skin) and suppositories. They are usually made of herbs and amino acids.
It can take anywhere from several months to several years for the chelation to remove the metals. Just as you got the build up gradually, over time, supplements take time to work.
Supplements are generally considered safe and effective for most people. Synthetic chelators should only be used in the event of severe heavy metal poisoning and administered by a healthcare professional. Organic supplements and chelators, however, are safe. One should consider when taking supplements are dosage and frequency. Too much, too often could be dangerous. Too little, not often enough could be ineffective.
Some types of nutritional supplements and chelators, aside from pills, have been hard to administer, in the past. However, recent research and technological advances have made them easier to administer and safer. For instance, sodium edetate (EDTA) used to only be administered intravenously. It has now been diluted and can be administered at home, without a doctor’s supervision, in the form of an oral drop. EDTA is a chelation agent that binds the metal that’s free in your system by sitting in your digestive tract and capturing it. It then gets pulled into your bloodstream and out of your body, freeing you of the heavy metals. Glutathione, an aminio peptide, also used to be administered intravenously. It can now be taken in the form of a pill.
Here Is An Interesting Fact . . .
Eighty percent of people with chronic ailments were found to have glutathione deficiencies. It is the body’s master antioxidant and detoxifier. It is hard to find a glutathione supplement your body will absorb, which is why it was administered intravenously before. However, if you find one that your body can absorb, it survives the trip through your digestive system and into your blood stream because it is encased in little pouches called liposomes.
Recent studies suggest that good glutathione supplements have a ninety percent absorption rate, which is comparable to the intravenous solutions, and much cheaper!
Once you first learn about how often, how much and how easy it is to build up heavy metals in your system, it can be scary. But, these simple digestive cleansing, detox diet and nutritional supplement tips should make eliminating heavy metals from your body using natural healthcare far easier and more comforting.