Heavy Metal Detoxification NJ


"Approximately 250,000 U.S. children aged 1-5 years have blood lead levels greater than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated. Lead poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body. Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized."

 

Chelation Therapy is approved and considered the gold standard of treatment for heavy metal poisoning and considered extremely safe. However, it is still considered experimental for treating arteriosclerosis.

Also beware that there are no definitive tests to determine the exact levels of toxic metals in your system. Blood, hair, fecal, radiographic, or challenge urine toxicity testing is only a general determinant that toxic metals are in your system because metals settle into different organs depending on age, metal type and nutritional status. We utilize challenge urine toxicity testing as a general indicator of toxic metals. There are safe levels of toxic metals according to government standards; but in Preventive Medicine the ideal is to eliminate completely ALL toxic metals.

Toxic Metals Brochure

Chelation Might Restore cardiovascular function?

EDTA Chelation INVESTIGATOR’S BROCHURE

The Case for Intravenous EDTA Chelation Therapy


Heavy Metals are shown to cause disease. Precise levels that are toxic to one person are benign to another. When evaluating toxicity one should consider the patient's overall health and what combination of toxicities their specific patient can handle. Also, consider that recent studies indicate that two same aged children with lead exposure; one child had 10 mcg/dl vs the other of 1 mcg/dl of lead. Although they both were at or below the government's toxic threshold of 10mcg/dl; the child at 10mcg/dl had an IQ of 7 points lower than the one at 1mcg/dl. The Cleansing Clinic believes that ANY poison is too much poison.

 

The Cleansing Clinic utilizes blood, hair, urine and fecal testing to determine heavy metal toxicity and works with patients to determine a strategy to promote optimum health. The most common metals we see in patients are lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminum. Mercury is chemically similar selenium; Lead is chemically similar calcium; Cadmium is chemically similar to zinc and Aluminum is chemically similar to magnesium. The metals are so chemically similar to substances your body NEEDS to function that your body is tricked into absorbing them. Once inside, these metals are trapped and begin a cascade of devastating effects; most of which are just coming into focus.

 

Come into The Cleansing Clinic in for a Heavy Metals Urine Collection Kit (only $25). You will go home take a very safe non toxic chelating agent (DMSA --DO NOT TAKE IF YOU HAVE SULFA ALLERGY) designed to draw heavy metals from your system (blood tests are NOT an test for metals that have seeped into soft tissue and bones). You will be instructed to collect your urine for six hours (in the jug supplied in the kit) and send a small sample in the fed ex box (supplied in the kit) to the Laboratory. The laboratory charges $60 for test results. (NJ State law prohibits MD's from charging for 3rd party - we have no financial relationship with the lab).

 

Results come back to our office in approximately 5 days.

 

Clients can relax for Chelation or IV Vitamin Therapy and watch their favorite show/movie on one of our wide screen TVs

 

 

 

MERCURY

Exposure to mercury occurs from breathing contaminated air, ingesting contaminated water and food, and having dental and medical treatments.

 

The nervous system is very sensitive to all forms of mercury. Methyl mercury and metallic mercury vapors are more harmful than other forms, because more mercury in these forms reaches the brain. Exposure to high levels of metallic, inorganic, or organic mercury can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and developing fetus. Effects on brain functioning may result in irritability, shyness, tremors, changes in vision or hearing, and memory problems.

 

Short-term exposure to high levels of mercury may cause effects including lung damage, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, increases in blood pressure or heart rate, skin rashes, and eye irritation.

 


LEAD

People are most likely to be exposed to lead by consuming contaminated food and drinking water. Exposure can also occur by inadvertently ingesting contaminated soil, dust, or lead-based paint. Ingestion is the primary source of exposure to the general population.

Lead paint is a major source of environmental exposure for children who ingest flaking paint, paint chips, and weathered powdered paint (mostly from deteriorated housing units in urban areas).

 

Lead paint can also contribute to soil/dust lead which can be inadvertently ingested via hand-to-mouth activity of young children. Lead can leach into drinking water from lead-based solder used in water pipes. Lead can leach into foods or liquids stored in ceramic containers made with lead glazing. Engaging in hobbies such as casting ammunition, making fishing weights, and stained glass can result in exposure to lead.

 

Exposure by inhalation can result during activities such as soldering with lead solder or sanding or sandblasting lead-based paint.

 

The most sensitive targets for lead toxicity are the developing nervous system, the hematological and cardiovascular systems, and the kidney. However, because of lead’s many modes of action lead could potentially affect any system or organ.

 

 

 

 

CADMIUM

In the United States, smoking is the primary source of cadmium exposure after that is from the food supply. People who regularly consume shellfish and organ meats will have higher exposures. In general, leafy vegetables such as lettuce and spinach, potatoes and grains, peanuts, soybeans, and sunflower seeds contain high levels of cadmium.


People who fish in local waters as a means of food should be cautious and abide by any advisories.


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that cadmium and cadmium compounds are known human carcinogens. Cadmium has been linked to diminished kidney function lung disease, chronic bronchitis and lung, kidney and prostate cancers.

 

 

ALUMINUM

 

Everyone is exposed to low levels of aluminum from food, air, water, and soil. Exposure to high levels of aluminum may result in respiratory and neurological problems.

 

Aluminum (in compounds combined with other elements) has been found in at least 596 of the 1,699 National Priority List (NPL) sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

 

• Virtually all food, water, air, and soil contain some aluminum.


• Breathing higher levels of aluminum dust in workplace.


• Living in areas where the air is dusty, where aluminum is mined or processed into aluminum metal, near certain hazardous waste sites, or where aluminum is naturally high.


• Eating substances containing high levels of aluminum (such as antacids) especially when eating or drinking citrus products at the same time.

 

• From vaccinations.

Some people with kidney disease store a lot of aluminum in their bodies and sometimes develop bone or brain diseases. Some studies show that people exposed to high levels of aluminum may develop Alzheimer's disease. Studies in animals show that the nervous system is a sensitive target of aluminum toxicity. However, the animals did not perform as well in tests that measured the grip strength or how much they moved around.

 

 

Chelation Therapy

 

Amalgam fillings, environmental pollution, tainted meat, fish, produce, along with most healthcare and beauty products can cause the build-up of toxic metals in our bodies. These toxic metals inhibit vital enzyme function and increase free radical damage. With chelation therapy several substances are administered to patients orally or intravenously to lower or eliminate heavy metals.

 

These chelating agents latch onto or bind to these metals, creating a compound that can be passed in the urine. Without chelation therapy these heavy metals can reside in the blood, muscle and bones for decades causing problems with DNA replication and enzyme function thus further predisposing the body to future illness at a time of compromised immune function.

 

The Cleansing Clinic utilizes numerous natural and synthetic oral and IV chelating agents. One popular type of IV chelating agent we use is EDTA Chelation.

 

Links About Chelation:
(The Cleansing Does NOT treat any diseases! These article links are provided to encourage people will do their own research and consult with their family doctor. In today's electronic age of research there is NO reason why consumers should take ANY medication without affording themselves the opportunity to independently learn as much as they can before they start taking it.)

 

Is EDTA Safe?

 

EDTA Chelation the miracle cure?

 

Case for Intravenous EDTA Chelation Therapy

 

Benefits of EDTA Chelation Therapy in Arteriosclerosis

 

EDTA Chelation therapy is a recognized treatment for heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. Chelation therapy is not approved by the FDA to treat coronary artery disease, but some physicians and alternative medicine practitioners use it for this purpose. The Cleansing Clinic does NOT treat coronary artery disease.

 

Up to now, there have been no adequate, controlled, published scientific studies using currently approved scientific methodology to support this therapy for cardiovascular disease. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American College of Cardiology all agree with the American Heart Association on this point.

 

In August 2002, the National Clinic for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which are both components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the launch of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT). This is the first large-scale, multiClinic study to find out if EDTA chelation therapy is safe and effective for people with coronary heart disease. This placebo-controlled, double-blind study involves participants age 50 years and older who've had a heart attack, and is expected to reach a total enrollment of 1,950. Participants are representative of the U.S. population. TACT is much larger than any prior study of chelation therapy; large enough to show if chelation therapy has mild or moderate benefits.

 

This study is being done because there is a public health need to conduct a large, well-designed clinical trial to find out if chelation therapy is safe and effective for treating people with coronary heart disease. If people use chelation therapy and it doesn't work, they may be deprived of the well-established benefits from the many other valuable methods of treating these diseases, such as lifestyle modifications, medications and surgical procedures; then again if chelation therapy is shown to be effective it may prevent thousands of needless surgeries each year.

 

The trial began in 2003; patients receive 30 weekly intravenous treatments, then 10 more treatments given bimonthly, over a 28-month period. They also receive high doses of vitamins, which are also often given with chelation therapy. (The effect of such vitamin doses will also be examined in the trial.) The study is expected to be completed in 2010.

 

Over 800,000 patient visits were made for chelation therapy in the United States in 1997. EDTA, which effectively speeds removal of heavy metals and minerals such as lead, iron, copper, and calcium from the blood, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in treating lead poisoning and toxicity from other heavy metals. Although it is not approved by the FDA to treat coronary artery disease, some physicians and alternative medicine practitioners have recommended EDTA chelation as a way to treat this disorder.

 

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a type of heart disease in which the coronary arteries (vessels that supply oxygen-carrying blood to the heart) become blocked by deposits of a fatty substance called plaque. As plaque builds, the arteries become narrower and less oxygen and nutrients are transported to the heart for proper function. CAD can lead to serious health problems such as angina (pain caused by insufficient oxygen-carrying blood reaching the heart) and heart attack. SEE FULL PRESS RELEASE: http://nccam.nih.gov/news/2002/chelation/pressrelease.htm