Heavy Metals
What are Heavy Metals?
Heavy metals are metallic elements with high atomic weight and density. Even at low levels, they can be toxic to living organisms. Common examples include lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and chromium. These metals can build up in the body over time, leading to health issues such as neurological damage, kidney problems, and respiratory complications. Exposure to heavy metals can occur through contaminated food, water, air, or through industrial activities.
How Heavy Metals can access the body?
Heavy metals can enter the body through several sources:
- Contaminated Food and Water: Eating or drinking food and water contaminated with heavy metals, often due to pollution or industrial runoff, can lead to exposure.
- Air Pollution: Breathing in polluted air containing heavy metals, such as mercury or lead, from industrial emissions or vehicle exhaust.
- Workplace Exposure: Individuals working in industries like mining, construction, or welding may be exposed to heavy metals through direct contact or inhaling dust or fumes.
- Household Products: Some everyday products, such as certain paints, batteries, and cosmetics, may contain heavy metals like lead or cadmium.
- Dental Fillings: Some dental amalgams contain mercury, which can release small amounts of the metal over time.
- Tobacco Smoke: Smoking or being around secondhand smoke can contribute to the accumulation of heavy metals like cadmium in the body.
- Environmental Exposure: Coming into contact with contaminated soil, water, or air near hazardous waste sites, landfills, or industrial areas can introduce heavy metals into the body.
These metals can be absorbed through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact.
Symptoms of Heavy Metals?
- Neurological Symptoms
- Digestive Issues
- Fatigue and Weakness
- Skin Problems
- Kidney and Liver Problems
- Respiratory Symptoms
- Mood and Behavioral Changes
- Muscle and Joint Pain
- Cardiovascular Issues
How to Test for Heavy Metals
We conduct tests on urine, stool, and blood to assess heavy metal exposure. Additionally, we perform neurodiagnostic testing to evaluate the impact on the nervous system. These tests help provide a comprehensive understanding of any potential toxicity and its effects on your body.
How to treat Mold?
Detoxification through supplements, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), and chelation therapy.