Decreasing the damage of free radicals by eliminating heavy metals
Scientists tell us that the human body often contains microscopic pieces of heavy
metal, such as mercury (from your fillings) lead, or even iron. These tiny pieces
of heavy metal are like time bombs, waiting to cause trouble. These minuscule pieces
of heavy metal, which are the size of several atoms, are toxic to the human body.
While generally overlooked by traditional medicine, these traces of heavy metals
in our bodies probably cause and aggravate most health conditions, including heart
disease and cancer.
These pieces of heavy metal originating from our environment, our fillings and our
diet can be so minuscule that they can easily become embedded inside some tissue in
the body. The metal could be located inside the liver, kidneys, or heart - just
about anywhere in the body. You could have millions of these tiny pieces of metal
inside your body!
When a free radical happens to collide with one of these tiny pieces of toxic heavy
metal, instead of this collision creating a single new free radical, there could be
a chain-reaction of MILLIONS of new free radicals produced from this one impact. This
is the devastating effect that free radicals have on the body.
Free radicals are a fact of life, they are present within us, moving along, and somewhere
along the way this minuscule particle hits a microscopic piece of toxic heavy metal.
We now have 1,000,000 new free radicals created in that instant. Each new free radical
moves off in some new direction, spreading throughout the body. Many of these new free
radicals will hit other pieces of toxic heavy metal, causing other MILLIONS of free
radicals to become newly created, each of them ready to damage your DNA and increase your
chances for cancer.
So what should we do about this heavy metal and free radical problem then? We should
try to find ways to stop metals from creating free radical chain reactions in our bodies
(vitamins C and E and other antioxidants can help us do this) and try to prevent these
free radicals from ever coming into contact with toxic metals in our bodies in the first
place. Fortunately, there is a way to accomplish this. This method is called oral chelation.
Chelation is a chemical process that has
applications in many areas, including medical treatment, environmental site rehabilitation,
water purification, and so forth. In the medical environment, chelation is used to treat
cardiovascular disease, heavy metal toxicity, and to remove metals that accumulate in body
tissues because of genetic disorders (hemochromatosis).
Chelation therapy, simply defined, is the process by which a molecule encircles and
binds (attaches) to the metal and removes it from tissue. Depending on the drug used,
chelating agents specific to the heavy metal involved are given orally, intramuscularly,
or intravenously. Once the bound metal leaves the tissue, it enters the bloodstream,
is filtered from the blood in the kidneys, and then is eliminated in the urine.
