Heavy Metal Toxicity

Excerpts from The High Blood Pressure Hoax, by Sherry Rogers, MD

The Heavy Metal Connection

It has been known for decades that the stockpiling of cadmium in the kidneys causes high blood pressure. Where does it come from? It is unavoidably ubiquitous in our foods. You can’t get away from it even if you eat organically (although it should reduce it). It comes from industrial and auto exhausts primarily. It spews out of smokestacks and tailpipes, is taken up into clouds then rains out into soil and streams where plants and animals concentrate it before we eat them. And cadmium isn’t the only heavy metal in the environment that can tank up in the kidneys and create hypertension. Lead, mercury, arsenic and other heavy metals have the ability to damage kidneys. Yet there is more. They can all damage the endothelial blood vessel lining, damage enzymes crucial in maintaining normal blood pressure, and damage the channels in cell membranes of blood vessels and heart cells so that calcium, magnesium, potassium and other minerals do not flow the way they should, another mechanism to cause high blood pressure (Salonen, Guallar, Lustberg, Kopp, Moller, Schwartz, Chai, Cheng).

For example, just having a blood lead level that is “normal,” but at the high end of normal, increases your chance of cancer 68%, increases your chance of early death from any cause by 46% and death from cardiovascular disease 33% (Lustberg). It took decades before scientists began to realize that the cut-off for lead was too high for children to have normal brains and intelligence (Bellinger). Not only are scientists discovering that “normal” blood ranges of heavy metals are much too high for healthful longevity, but that unsuspected heavy metals are the cause of much cardiovascular disease, especially high blood pressure (Lin). It is especially imperative to correctly assay for lead if a patient has hypertension because it can not only destroy the kidneys (Tsaih), but also destroy brain function (DOD, Tsaih, Lin).

Lead that silently stockpiles in our bodies goes on to contribute not only to high blood pressure, but diabetes and kidney disease necessitating renal dialysis (Tsaih). But like many heavy metals, this is not easy to find with just a blood level, because that’s not where the majority of it hides. It hides out in the bones. Unfortunately as folk’s age they tend to get lower in minerals, leading to bone loss and osteoporosis. Along with this, the heavy metals start to leach out of bone storage and land in important organs, like blood vessels, heart disease with carious names like angina, arrhythmias or congestive heart failure, or they get cancers from these heavy metals, too. So how do we identify then get rid of the heavy metals and restore normal blood pressure?

Rescue for the Stranded Illness

Often folks do all sorts of things that have worked for other folks, but to no avail. They are still not well. Is your blood pressure up regardless of what you do? Do you feel like you have been sentenced to a lifetime of blood pressure pills? Or for that matter do you have any other illness that is at a standstill? Are you unable to get to a higher level of wellness and off the drug merry-go-round? If you are stranded with the label of high blood pressure, or any other medical label that is going nowhere, you most likely have heavy metal syndrome. You need accelerated heavy metal detox.

Chelation: Detoxification in Vain?

For decades folks have literally saved their lives with IV Chelation. Many of these folks have had blood pressure resistant to any medications, intractable angina or end-stage heart failure and were doomed for an early death. With IV (intravenous or given in the vein by needle) Chelation of Calcium Disodium Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (CaNa2EDTA) given slowly over three of four hours at a dose of usually two to three grams, folks have literally been given a new lease on life. It works by not only pulling out heavy metals from damaged harts and heart valves, but it pulls heavy metals out of storage in blood vessels, kidneys, and more, and it has even pulled out calcifications of arteries. Although it has been a miracle for many, like anything else it has its disadvantages:

• You need a Chelation physician in your city, and many folks have had to travel several hundreds miles to find one.
• Once you get there, Chelation is usually 3000mg and lasts three or four hours and is done two to four times a week for 30-60 weeks.
• By forcing a Chelation dose of 3 gms on the body over a short period of time, it puts more stress on organs, like the kidneys, and has caused kidney failure.
• The cost is usually over $150 per session, not counting travel and time lost from work.
• Blood studies reveal that plasticizers from the IV bags and tubing accumulate in the bloodstream and later end up contaminating the rest of the human body. These plastics from IV’s often end up in the peroxisomes, little organelles inside of all cells (except mature red blood cells because they have lost their nuclei). They quietly damage the chemistry needed by all cell membranes and thereby lead to further diseases, including high blood pressure (references in DOD).

So as life saving as EDTA Chelation has been, it is time consuming, difficult, unphysiologic, potentially dangerous and expensive. You might say it is detoxification done in the veins. But due to all these negatives, it is really done (pardon the pun) in vain. Who needs all the disease-producing phthalates and to force the system and risk renal damage?

But fortunately, a method of using patented Chelation suppositories has opened up the whole world of heavy metal detoxification, making it available to everyone. The very same chemical that goes into the IV, CaNa2EDTA (calcium disodium EDTA) has been incorporated into rectal suppositories in a smaller dose so that it does not put so much strain on the system, especially the kidneys. A suppository contains 750 mg. of calcium disodium EDTA (about a quarter of a regular IV dose), which is slowly absorbed through the sigmoid colon during the night and gently works detoxifying the body of its heavy metals. This avoids the disadvantages I’ve shown you for IV Chelation and by using a gentler dose every night, you allow the body catch-up time. Let’s look at all of the advantages to this method:

• You save money and time as well as the danger of traveling.
• You lose no time from work or home.
• You are gently coaxing the heavy metals out of the body with a quarter of the dose you would be given with the IV method. This relieves the kidney and rest of the body from the strain of forcing a higher dose on it over a shorter period of time.
• It is extremely inexpensive; the cost of the suppositories for nightly Chelation for a month can be approximately what you would pay for one Chelation session.
• There are no disease-producing plastics or phthalates to be absorbed, since there are no IV’s.
• You have total flexibility with the dose. You can use half or a quarter of a suppository or two or three of them at a time. Likewise you can chelate on the days that you want to and forget it on the other days. For example, you could chelate on the even days and correct your mineral deficiencies on the odd days. Or you could chelate for a week and then be off for a week, boosting your minerals aggressively during that time.

Always, during Chelation of any sort, you still need to periodically take extra minerals as I described earlier, because EDTA chelates out some of your good minerals as well as your heavy metals. The name of the suppository that is so safe and affordable is Detoxamin.

It will revolutionize medicine.

Excerpts from The High Blood Pressure Hoax, by Sherry Rogers, MD