Chickens, Arsenic, and Thyroid Health May 18, 2008

I got my heavy metal urine analysis results back. I have very high levels of a number of metals, but I am highest in arsenic and uranium. So high, in fact, that it says I have reached the “tentative maximum permissible limit”.

Both arsenic and uranium are not only highly toxic and carcinogenic, but they are both endocrine disruptors.

Not sure how I got all the uranium, but the high levels of arsenic probably came from years of eating supermarket and restaurant chicken and eggs. Dr. Rind said in his lecture that he couldn’t understand why he kept seeing such high levels of arsenic in his patients. Then he found out that poultry factory farms have been adding arsenic to the chicken feed for years. They do it, he said, to kill their thyroid, so they’ll fatten up faster.

Gee, you think they might have considered what would happen to those of us eating those chickens?

It’s disgusting to me that our food supply is so toxic. It’s outrageous that the people providing us with our food are essentially feeding us poison.

The scary thing is… I have high levels of this stuff now. I haven’t eaten factory farm chicken in several months. I wonder how much more I had a couple of years ago. Which means Kate has all of these metals, too — since the heavy metals get dumped into your breast milk.

So how do I get rid of this stuff? The best way is with food. Iodoral actually helps the body chelate heavy metals. In addition to that, I’m going to start taking chlorella (Seth and Kate, too).

Dr. Merola says:

Chlorella has been demonstrated to remove heavy metals and other synthetics from the body by actually binding with them so they may be pulled from the bloodstream. However, this result can only be measured if the level of heavy metals in the bloodstream are known before and after a person starts taking chlorella.

It takes approximately 3-6 months once starting chloreela for heavy metals to begin to be removed from the blood depending on the amount of chlorella taken. If it has been determined that a person does have heavy metals in their body, they should begin by taking 15-20 grams per day depending on the level of heavy metals that are present.

Can Chlorella Be Given To Children?

Absolutely. In fact, chlorella has been shown to promote rapid growth in children, as well as build in them superior immune systems. In studies with identical twins, the one given the chlorella grew much faster, much healthier and had much fewer instances of colds, flu, etc. than the twin who was not given chlorella. Children can take one-half to one-fourth the adult dose described above.

I’m also going to start taking the epsom salt baths like Seth has been doing.

I guess the good thing is, it is being excreted through my urine. I think when your body doesn’t have enough iodine, you can’t chelate this stuff. Which explains why I started having symptoms of arsenic poisoning (tingling and pins and needles in my hands and fingers) only after pregnancy and breastfeeding. When my body was depleted of iodine, I could not adequately chelate the toxins.

Yet another reason to take Iodoral.