by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

If you’ve not already, please read . . .

  1. ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
  2. ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
  3. Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
  4. Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)

The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:

  • realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy 
  • receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
  • heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
  • create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
  • help others by sharing your greatest gifts
  • make our world a better place

As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold. 

Detoxing Chemicals and Heavy Metals

Chemicals and heavy metals are all around you – in food, air, water, body care products, home and laundry cleaning products, etc.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average American comes into contact with over 2000 chemicals a day.  The U.S. allows over 14,000 chemicals to be in our food supply.  Newborn babies have been found with hundreds of chemicals in their blood.

Until big businesses put health concerns before profit, chemicals will abound.  A popular phrase in the 1960’s was: “Better living through chemistry.” Sixty years later, we’re seeing the negative impacts on our health.

Excessive heavy metals and chemicals are harmful, especially in the amounts present today.  Your body can tolerate some unnaturally occurring toxins, but not in the current excessive forms and amounts.  Chemicals and heavy metals particularly affect the brain and hormonal glands, thus causing common physical and mental symptoms.

Sherry Rogers MD, author of Detoxify or Die, states that chemicals and heavy metals are also often a core cause of neuromuscular diseases such as Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, Multiple Sclerosis, and other afflictions involving tremors.

Excessive chemical exposure is especially problematic for those who work around chemicals.   They are more likely to develop neuromuscular and other disorders.  Linda, a forty-five- year-old who had worked around chemicals for 20 years, developed tremors of the hands and an autoimmune disorder.  She said several coworkers in their mid-thirties also had tremors of the face and hands.  Her symptoms cleared up nicely when we helped her body remove the over-accumulation of chemicals.

Excess chemicals need to be dealt with for ourselves, our children and our children’s children.  Otherwise, more and more people will likely face major illness and mental imbalances.  If traditional medical care is sought, the treatment will usually be more chemicals in the form of prescription drugs.

When making important decisions centuries ago, Native Americans considered the impact on seven generations ahead.  Unfortunately, many of today’s decisions are based on profit while future health impacts are ignored.

I’ve seen heart-wrenching examples of people whose lives are impaired or ruined by excess chemicals.  We have seen a number of teenagers who suffer with ten or more serious symptoms such as depression, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, insomnia, morbid fears, nightmares, etc.

Since chemicals are inescapable and harmful, you are wise to minimize your exposure and regularly remove them from your body.

Chemicals and Common Sources

Body Care Products: non-natural brands of facial creams, artificial nails, lotions, oils, shampoo and conditioner, soap, powders, breath freshener, makeup, hair gels/ coloring, mouthwash, cologne, shaving cream, toothpaste, baby wipes and diapers

Home Cleaners: any commercial home cleaners that contain chemicals. Instead, use natural products containing baking soda, white vinegar, lemon, borax, castile soap, salt, and essential oils for fragrance.

Food Dyes: in processed and packages foods with food coloring added.

Food Preservatives: in packaged and processed foods and some salad bars

Formaldehyde: permanent press and other treated fabrics, cosmetics and toiletries, household cleaners, paper products, building materials, medications, paint and stripping agents, cigarettes, smoke from burning wood, etc.

Herbicides: non-organic foods and unfiltered water

Medications: prescription drugs

Acetate/Acetone: paint, varnish, nail polish and remover, paint thinners and removers, cosmetics, artificial flavors, adhesives

Hydrocarbons: exhaust from gas or diesel engines, and natural gas

Petrosolvents: paints, varnishes, glues, adhesives, aerosol sprays, ink, permanent markers, solvents such as benzene and carbon tetrachloride

Pesticides: chemical products used to control bugs and plants

Plastic: plastic wrap, plastic water bottles, food packaging

In addition to minimizing exposure to the sources above, what else can you do?

  • Use naturally based body care products whenever possible. Avoid ones that contain chemical fragrances, colors, and preservatives.
  • When you are around new furniture, building materials or car, thoroughly ventilate the area, especially in bedrooms.
  • Filter water used for drinking and bathing to avoid common chemicals in tap water. Don’t flush harmful chemicals such as unused prescription drugs and paint down the toilet or sink.
  • Eat real food from local organic sources to avoid dyes, food preservatives, and chemicals from containers. Avoid foods that have been treated with herbicides and pesticides. Don’t eat meat, eggs or dairy products that have been raised with growth hormones, antibiotics, and chemicals.
  • Use naturally-based house cleaning and pesticide products.
  • Read labels: it’s not a good sign if a food, body care, or housecleaning product contains lots of long chemical-sounding words that you can’t pronounce.
  • Contact your legislators and urge their action to protect people, animals and the environment from chemical products and wastes.
  • Use healthy elimination and detox measures described earlier in this chapter.
  • Lose weight if needed since chemicals and heavy metals can store in fat.
  • Use a detox program such as the Standard Process Purification Program two to four times a year to assist internal cleansing of the bowels, kidneys, lungs, blood, lymphatics and skin.
  • Use a nutrition-based healing program to detect excess chemicals and determine what approach is best to remove them.

Hiding your head in the sand isn’t going to make this one go away. There are many advantages of 21st century living, but chemical toxicity must be addressed or more people, especially children will suffer.

Toxic or heavy metals – for example, mercury, aluminum, arsenic, plutonium and lead – can cause serious illness. Others, such as iron, copper, manganese and zinc, are needed in small amounts but cause damage at excessive levels.

Pollution of air, food and water has increased the amount of certain metals that pose health risks for humans and animals. Other heavy metals are purposely added to products. Example include aluminum in antiperspirant deodorants, or mercury in vaccinations, dental fillings and processed foods. These are present in small amounts that over time can accumulate and contribute to disease.

Certain individuals are more sensitive to these metals and are like a canary in a coal mine—a first line alert of coming danger to others.

Many doctors and health scientists point to the serious health problems these days and consider heavy metal toxicity to be a core cause. For example, consider the large Alzheimer’s treatment centers in existence these days. When I was young, I was around many older people in our family, neighborhood and church. None of them had dementia, senility, Alzheimer’s or whatever label is used to describe the alarming incidence of memory loss and mental confusion.

In my holistic health care centers, we have treated a number of people in their thirties and forties who report significant problems with memory and concentration.

Why are so many children suffering with mental symptoms such as hyperactivity, depression, anxiety and behavior problems? Same question with adults who have facial or hand tremors before middle age. What is going on? Many experts are pointing to the increase in toxic metals and urging people to face this problem now.

Toxic Metals and Common Sources

Aluminum: cookware, packaged foods, antacids, antiperspirants, baking soda, aluminum cans, kitchen utensils, paints, dental composites, toothpaste

Antimony: flame-retardant clothing and furniture, medicines, pigments

Arsenic: poisons, pigments, dyes, wood preservative, insecticide, wine, well water, coal burning, shellfish, treated lumber

Barium: diagnostic tests, drinking water, bleaches, dyes, fireworks, ceramics

Beryllium: exposure at nuclear and aerospace industries, refining and melting of beryllium-containing alloys, manufacturing of electronic devices

Bromine: agriculture chemicals, flame-retardants, contaminated drinking water and food sources, spas, swimming pools

Cadmium: fertilizers, cigarettes, water from galvanized pipes, shellfish, industrial fumes, paint, air pollution, auto exhaust

Calcium: poor quality sources of calcium, excess dairy products

Chromium: cheap chromium-coated stainless-steel kitchen utensils corroded by acidic foods, dyes, pigments, air pollution, dental crowns

Copper: poor quality mineral supplements, copper plumbing, cook ware, dental materials, pesticides, jewelry, IUDs, birth control pills

Fluorine: fluoride containing toothpaste and mouthwash, fluoridated water

Gold/Silver: cheap jewelry, dental fillings, injections for arthritis

Iodine: excess supplements and iodized salt, topical iodine solution

Iron: paints, dyes, poor quality mineral supplements, enriched wheat flour, pollution, occupational exposure, tobacco

Lead: paint, car exhaust, occupational exposure, plumbing, canned food, hair dye

Magnesium: poor quality mineral supplements, antacids, laxatives

Manganese: well water, ceramics, dyes, medicines, job exposure

Mercury: processed foods, dental fillings, seafood, vaccinations, water

Nickel: auto exhaust, cigarettes, dental crowns, occupational exposure

Radioactive Metals: contaminated food, air and water; nuclear plants

Tin: canned foods, paints, pesticides, contaminated water, job exposure

Titanium: paints, medications, orthopedic/dental implants, job exposure

Zinc: poor quality mineral supplements, exposure to smelters, metal cans

What action steps can you take so toxic metals don’t hurt you and your loved ones?

  1. Prevention of further heavy metals listed above.
  2. Removal of toxic metals already in the body.

Prevention involves avoiding further exposure to the above sources as much as possible. Suggestions for doing this include:

  • Avoid processed foods, especially those containing high fructose corn syrup, as much as possible since they can contain small amounts of mercury as a preservative
  • Use deodorants with natural ingredients, not aluminum
  • Don’t use canned foods to prevent intake of lead, aluminum, tin and other metals
  • Avoid medical drugs as much as possible since they may contain heavy metals; this is especially critical for vaccinations that can contain mercury in the form of thimerosal
  • Use a mercury-free dentist for your dental fillings
  • Filter drinking water with a dual carbon filter, and bathing water with a whole house filter
  • Avoid over-the-counter medications, for example, antacids that contain toxic metals
  • Use skin care products that only contain natural ingredients

You get the idea: look at the list of common sources and eliminate them as much as possible. Be sure to tell your family and friends about the dangers of heavy metals so they can avoid them, too.

Finally, be sure to contact your legislators and urge their action to protect people, animals and the environment from toxic metals.

For treatment, use the same healing programs as with chemicals.

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Thank you for telling others about this article!  Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:  

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Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs

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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity. 

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Note: This article is intended as a reference source, not to replace professional treatment for physical, emotional, or mental problems.  The author disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the voluntary use of action steps discussed in article. 

I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator.  My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings.  This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.