Founder/CEO Nutritional Analytics. Specialize in Mineral Balancing, Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis Interpretation & Metals Toxicology.
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Clark Engelbert retweeted
Metal eliminations on the full moon. Experiencing strange sometimes surreal sensations and weird memory recall, previous states experienced vividly it is almost psychedelic. Also my skin itches a lot and it doesn't always feel great. This is a little into month 2 of year 1
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Heritage American is actually easily defined and has been done so beautifully by @JohnDoyle
It’s a person with mixed European ancestry whose family has been here since before 1965.
If you notice in your comments someone said we should deport you too for being an obtuse bitch.
And you said “where will you deport me to?” Indicating you have mixed European heritage.
This is exactly what a heritage American is. They are of European-mixed-origin and don’t really have anywhere they could go back to.
They are uniquely American in this precise way. Mixed European heritage with some lineage going back before we invited the entirety of the third world here (via hart cellar).
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nitter.net/metalsbrah/status/1856…
Worth considering as well…
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There are several important points that need to be made about this post that are missing:
𝟭.𝗖𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿.
“Phytoremediator” refers to certain types of plants that bioaccumulate metals from the soils and other environments far more efficiently than other types of plants.
Other examples of plant phytoremediators are tobacco, marijuana strains, rice, etc.
This is why tobacco, marijuana and rice are more contaminated than other plants with metals like cadmium, lead, and arsenic.
This dramatically raises the risk of metal contamination in the chlorella product itself.
So while its binding capacity is well-documented, getting a solid COA from the company selling it will protect you from intoxicating the very thing you are trying to eliminate.
𝟮. 𝗖𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲, 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀.
The way that most “chelating agents” work is by binding to metals in the blood and being excreted through the liver or kidneys.
As the blood levels of the metals decline, because blood and tissue metal levels are kept in a steady state, there is an emptying mechanism that occurs at the tissue level of the given metal as the blood level declines.
The extent to which this is happening is probably very nominal. Meaning a very small percentage of a given metal in the total blood volume will be bound and excreted by the chlorella.
In an average American, let’s say, the blood lead reading is around 20 micrograms per deciliter. Total blood volume is 50x that so that’s about 1 milligram of lead circulating in the entire blood volume at a given time.
How much of this is excreted by chlorella binding is a mystery but it’s likely only a very small fraction.
The average person has anywhere from 8 milligrams of lead in the entire body to upwards of > 200 milligrams in a gen Xer or baby boomer, based on autopsy data.
So it would take forever to rely on this emptying mechanism dynamic to really get at a persons total body burden.
Which brings me to the last point…
𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀
Most of what is being cited in this post in based on animal or in vitro data, not humans.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:
It’s probably a better bet to do some combination of dairy maxxing and sauna to effectively deal with lead through this emptying mechanism dynamic.
The calcium may competitively inhibit lead at tissue sites versus having an effect in the blood and sauna will have more of an emptying effect through the sweat mechanism.
All without the contamination risk associated with chlorella.
And as always, the secret third path one may consider is mineral balancing, to deal with one’s lead burden.
I have case reports demonstrating reversals of anxiety disorders in two people now after eliminating significant lead on a mineral balancing program, but that is beyond the scope of this small post.
For more on that see my pinned post.
chlorella is the only food with clinical evidence showing it binds to and removes mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic from human tissue. let that sink in. a single celled algae does what a $5,000 IV chelation therapy session attempts to do, available in a $15 jar at your health food store
heavy metals accumulate in your body from fish consumption (mercury), tap water (lead, arsenic), cosmetics (lead, cadmium), dental fillings (mercury), and air pollution (all of the above). the accumulation is silent. you don't feel mercury building up. you feel the downstream effects: brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, hormonal disruption. by the time symptoms appear the accumulation has been building for years
the mechanism is chlorella's unique cell wall. the fibrous cell wall contains compounds that bind to heavy metals through a process called biosorption. the metals attach to the cell wall and are carried out of the body through the digestive tract. the binding is selective: chlorella preferentially binds to toxic heavy metals while leaving essential minerals (zinc, iron, magnesium) untouched. a biological filter that sorts the good from the bad
• reduced blood mercury levels by 30% in a Japanese clinical study of participants with dental amalgam fillings. the mercury was being continuously released from the fillings and chlorella was continuously removing it
• binds to cadmium, lead, and arsenic in the gastrointestinal tract preventing absorption from contaminated food and water. a protective shield taken with meals
• the chlorella growth factor (CGF) stimulates tissue repair and immune function independently of the chelation effect. the detox and the rebuild happen simultaneously
• provides 60% protein by weight, all B vitamins including B12, iron, and the highest chlorophyll content of any food on earth. it's a detoxifier that is simultaneously a superfood
• used in Japan as the #1 selling supplement since the 1960s. 10 million Japanese people take it daily. the population with the highest life expectancy on earth considers it essential
• binds to dioxins and PCBs (industrial pollutants) in addition to heavy metals. the range of toxins it captures is broader than any single pharmaceutical chelation agent
IV chelation therapy costs $3,000 to $5,000 per course and requires medical supervision because the pharmaceutical chelators (EDTA, DMSA) pull essential minerals along with toxic ones. chlorella selectively binds toxins while preserving essential minerals. the expensive version is less selective than the cheap version. the irony is clinical
3 to 5 grams of broken cell wall chlorella daily (the cell wall must be "broken" or "cracked" for human digestion to access the nutrients inside). take it with meals for maximum heavy metal binding in the GI tract. sun chlorella and yaeyama chlorella are the two most researched brands. start with 1 gram and increase over 2 weeks (too fast can cause detox symptoms as metals mobilize). $15 for a 2 month supply
the most toxic substances accumulating in your body right now are being cleaned up daily by 10 million Japanese people using a $15 jar of algae. the population doing this has the longest lifespan on earth. the connection deserves more attention than it gets.
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Hair mineral patterns as they occur on a mineral balancing program are emergent.
Meaning they happen to you in real time each day.
But the HTMA test itself is measuring an average of the minerals deposited into the hair over the prior three months.
So we can only understand what is happening to you on mineral balancing as we interpret the test retrospectively, or looking back in time.
Similarly, life is this way.
Things just sort of happen and we are forced to deal with them as they emerge each day.
It’s not until later that we understand events and their meaning for our lives.
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Cool experiment my friend is doing here!
The device he’s using is an intranasal red light device sold by @VielightInc.
The intranasal devices are interesting because they deliver light directly to the frontal and prefrontal cortex - areas responsible for emotional control, decision making, and higher level thinking.
The most interesting aspect of these brain red light devices IMO are their potential to modulate the brain glymphatic system.
The glymphatic system is vital for brain detoxification of metals especially.
In theory the red light directly on these brain regions should expedite clearance of metals from the brain.
I'm going to be sticking a light up my nose once a day for the next 3 months.
It's called intranasal photobiomodulation. Four applicators, 25 minutes a session, and you look completely deranged using it.
The premise: the nasal cavity is the shortest route to the underside of the brain, and it's packed with capillaries. So instead of shining light on your skin and hoping, you go in through the nose.
What @VielightInc says each wavelength does:
→ 810nm near-infrared — cognitive function. 10Hz for relaxation, 40Hz for focus
→ 633nm red LED — systemic wellness and immunity
→ 655nm red laser — same, different delivery
→ 470nm blue laser — intranasal microbial sanitisation
They have 30+ published and ongoing studies. I haven't read them all yet.
But here's what I find odd.
Red light therapy on your body? Everyone's on it. Sunlight, circadian rhythm, methylene blue, all heavily covered on X.
Intranasal? Almost nothing.
Either it doesn't work, or it works and nobody's looked. I don't know which yet.
So I'll do what I always do. One variable, three months, and I don't judge it before then.
I'll report back either way, including if it does nothing.
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Another example of a health influencer making gaining/losing weight an idol.
This is why the health space is so nuked.
If you gain a little weight from consuming dairy WHO CARES?
I would actually argue if you get fat from dairy, the trade off of better calcium status from the dairy consumption was worth every pound of fat gained, and then some.
Dairy, which is the best source of calcium in the modern world, uniquely protects against accumulation of lead, cadmium, aluminum and in some cases is protective of mercury (the zinc in certain cheeses).
He has no theory of toxic metals and so weight is the ultimate proxy for health.
Therefore, dairy bad.
The exact opposite is true.
Dairy is the healthiest food on the planet, easy to prepare, DELICIOUS.
It is the quintessential modern superfood because it protects against the most important modern poisons - toxic metals.
Dairy is delicious. That is the trap. It is also inflammatory, easy to overeat, and very good at causing weight gain. Milk was built to fatten a baby mammal, not to be part of your adult diet. If you love cheese and still cannot lose the weight or the puffiness, watch this. piped.video/oZYtaiLznW8
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Clark Engelbert retweeted
Yepppp.
Also, not as well known is that Cadmium stimulates estrogen receptors and can enhance prolactin as well.
It’s a disaster for man’s androgenicity.
In many situations, because of cadmium’s extremely tight binding intracellularly with metallothioneine it may not show up on diagnostic tests like an HTMA despite a clear and significant exposure history.
Also, at times metals may not show up on diagnostics (especially cadmium) when they have built up to such a degree in the tissues that they inactivate detoxifying enzymes and metal binding proteins which facilitate their excretion.
This is known as the poor eliminator phenomenon and I see this clinically play out very often with cadmium in particular on HTMAs.
Outside of an HTMA another good test to get to assess cadmium status would be a urine challenge test since this will reflect cadmium status in the kidneys, which is the main target organ for cadmium accumulation.
If your DHT is low, check for cadmium.
Cadmium is a heavy metal with potent 5-alpha reductase inhibitory effects.
A simple HTMA will show it, but sometimes, if zinc and glutathione are low, cadmium isn't properly detoxed and won't show high in the HTMA.
Maybe @MetalsBrah can add more here.
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Clark Engelbert retweeted
Iron has been apart of human biochemistry for a very long time.
As such, we have evolved elaborate systems to deal with the consequences of iron overload.
Namely the antioxidant enzymes.
Iron is so important to human beings that there are no known excretion pathways for this element (the exception of course in women being menstruation).
However, in the modern world we do tend to see an epidemic of iron overload or iron toxicity.
And so one wonders, is it that we’re eating so much more iron than we did in the past that iron toxicity is now so much more prevalent?
Iron fortification beginning in the 1940s certainly isn’t helping.
But is there something else driving this?
I believe there is.
Aluminum being liberated from the earths crust for industrial purposes (from bauxite ores) first occurred in the mid 19th century and human beings have figured out to take aluminum from these ores and turn them into aluminum salts which can be used for thousands of purposes in the modern world.
I believe we are living through The Aluminum Age now due its prevalence in industry, the environment and thus human beings.
Because of aluminums physiochemical similarity to iron (especially Al+3 and Fe+3) aluminum stimulates iron uptake into cells via transferrin receptors.
The bottom line is that more aluminum in your body equals more iron and more inflammatory effects from the iron you do have.
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Clark Engelbert retweeted
When an aluminoid says something so iron-ergic you have to hit them with that silica stare.
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A message from a former student in my HTMA/Mineral Balancing training programs.
Apropos per the quoted post.
Amazing things happen when you eliminate aluminum and your other metals on mineral balancing.
Sometimes things we simply cannot predict.
Identity shifts on mineral balancing are common. Metals accumulate and slowly become incorporated into the structure of your tissues.
Aside from all the known negative effects of this like increased ROS, inflammation, gut issues - literally the list is endless - are these subtle effects that metals have on personality and your identity.
As metals accumulate and lower your energy levels, the personality changes to compensate for the lower energy.
And you do things, say things and BECOME someone else who you never were before.
These changes solidify in the human being as they happen over long periods of time and we call this “identity.”
As metals are eliminated on mineral balancing we can reverse these personality shifts that have occurred as a result of the lowered energy levels coming from the presence of the metals.
I promise you NO ONE else is talking about these effects of metals anywhere on social media because very few have the experience of guiding people through long term metal eliminations.
So they never are able to categorize the reversals in personality and identity in clients.
With mineral balancing, we can.
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In promoting mineral balancing I think it’s vital to include, honestly, what it’s like to eliminate metals.
It’s actually quite difficult when the eliminations are actively happening.
There are a variety of reasons for this.
Sometimes the metal being mobilized locally from a tissue site may temporarily be irritating to the tissue it is leaving from.
Metals HAVE to be dumped from the tissue site into the blood before they are excreted by the skin, liver or kidneys and this may cause temporary symptoms that mimic intoxication of said metal.
At times, the excretion pathways (liver, kidneys or skin) may be overloaded and this can cause bloating, cloudy urine or skin rashes.
This test and this clients intake forms are a perfect example of this phenomenon playing out in a real person.
On his test we see the aluminum reading go from .64mg% on his last test to 1.36mg% - an increase of over 100% in his aluminum level from his last test to this one.
When the reading of a given metal goes UP on HTMAs in series like this it means he is more rapidly excreting aluminum in the time period between the tests.
We ruthlessly control for exposure vectors to rule out endogenous exposure being the reason for the rise of the metal, and correct lab procedures ensure no exogenous contamination of the sample, when actually running the test.
If we look at the other metals highlighted in red we can see FIVE other elements have risen at this time, indicating a powerful detoxification process being initiated more globally as a consequence of the mineral balancing intervention.
If we pay special attention to his lead reading, we see it go from .053mg% to .203mg%, an almost quadrupling of one of the most toxic metals on the planet.
Then we see some of the symptoms he’s listed here on his intake forms and he knows he’s eliminating stuff because I’ve coached him to identify these symptoms/process and to not worry about them and/or take action to ameliorate them as they come up.
As he continues to clear these toxic metals he will feel dramatically better, however, for periods of time it is necessary to pass through these uncomfortable symptoms as the metals are eliminated.
If you want the best long term results with your health, mineral balancing is unparalleled in this health space.
However it comes with caveats and it’s quite bad for short term performance because of these detox effects.
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Nearly all of the health interventions you see on this app and others are compensating for the fact that most modern people are loaded with metals to a degree that you simply cannot fathom.
Changes like this, through one intervention that targets metals broadly, speak to the power of eliminating metals.
This client specifically has been eliminating aluminum the entire time we have been working together (almost a year now).
There are seemingly disparate positive changes like this because we don’t know where the metals specifically accumulate in a person and so when they are eliminated they may be coming from a variety of locations, all of which simultaneously and spontaneously improve.
Notice the changes in skin, digestion, energy levels, her cycle AND cognition.
Most of you are trapped in the cycle of trying to target these things with specific compounds. A never ending wild goose chase.
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