Heavy Metals

Why Heavy Metals Poison Your Life

21. August 2019 4 min read

Heavy metals like mercury block vital body functions and impair hormones, immune system, and sleep. Learn how to protect yourself from this invisible burden.

Currently, we're writing frequently about the topic of heavy metals on the blog. The reason for this is that many people put a lot of effort into their lifestyle – and yet still feel "heavy as lead".

The funny thing about this is that this heaviness could actually come from lead. We increasingly have a problem with environmental toxins of all kinds.

Health and physical well-being can be "made". An understanding of the "how" can be obtained through, for example, the following equation:

Health/Well-being = Energy + Micronutrients + Food Matrix – Environmental Toxins/Intolerances/Allergies/Food Toxins/Metabolic Waste Products/Genetics

That is: You can "do everything right" – but if you unknowingly poison yourself with heavy metals ... that blocks all progress. Using the example of mercury, we can describe this effect quite precisely:

Mercury binds to selenium in the body – thereby making "free selenium" unusable and inactivating important proteins that only function with selenium. But these proteins produce one of the most important hormones in the human body, thyroid hormone T3, and essentially regulate large parts of the body's own antioxidant network (via glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase). Mind you: the consequences of this are not even listed here. For example, the selenium-dependent deiodinases, which actually produce T3, simultaneously also control growth hormone production – ergo and to put it bluntly: with lots of mercury in your body, forget about restorative sleep. Anyone wanting to know all the details can read more [source no longer available], pp. 73ff.
It's a metalloestrogen: It "activates" the estrogen receptor and thus mimics the effect of estrogens. That's why there apparently is a connection to breast cancer.
It "irritates" the immune system, which is why it can promote the development of autoimmune diseases.
Mercury inactivates an enzyme called Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT), which normally breaks down stress hormones like adrenaline and noradrenaline. For this reason, mercury can also raise blood pressure. And we might experience chronic stress.

The question is, of course, how we get these heavy metals back out of the body. Certainly, the first step should be to understand that you're actually heavy metal loaded – and simply stop introducing them. How to additionally support this entire "detoxification process" is also the topic [source no longer available].

New: [source no longer available], which showed that physical training leads to a decline in erythrocyte concentrations of cadmium and lead – as an adaptation to prevent their accumulation in cells and maintain correct cell function.

*Aha, isn't that a sensational finding? So exercise helps get these heavy metals out of the cells. This could happen, for example, because sweating is part of the body's natural detoxification function.

A small downside: the same study showed that athletes had higher arsenic levels. My "educated guess" tells me the subjects were Spanish – the athlete group simply ate more rice ... energy has to come from somewhere. Paella! ;-)

This "dualism" is fascinating, isn't it? Life should actually be relatively simple. A lion in the savanna certainly doesn't need to read a biochemistry textbook to get out of bed in the morning. But us humans ... we might struggle out of bed for decades. And think that's normal. The cause often becomes a search for a needle in a haystack.

Okay, what can I say? For over a decade I've been revolutionizing the biochemistry of the body. Hard work eventually pays off. That is: edubily is now a cornucopia of possibilities for healing, recovery, and optimization.*

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