Heavy metal toxicity and its possible connection to Morgellons symptoms

[tcmgpt13]

One of the things which seems to be helping me reduce morgellons symptoms over time is detoxifying heavy metals from my body. Some of the ways I do this are using a foot detox machine and a far infrared sauna as well. Sweat helps reduce heavy metal toxic load. Hopefully I have been helping reduce my morgellons symptoms by simultaneously treating myself with herbs and other protocols to help eliminate mycotoxins, bacteria and viruses. I am not saying I am totally well, but I am better than I was when I got morgellons over two years ago. It is a slow process without any medications, but I am noticing improvements in sleep and appetite. I also have more energy, although I can say that there is still room to improve.

Here are some symptoms of heavy metal toxicity. As you can see many of them mirror morgellons symptoms. In fact they also mirror chronic fatigue and lyme symptoms. This is why I feel that without reducing the body's heavy metal load the body will have a tougher time eliminating the disease, be it bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic in origin:

“Symptoms of acute high-dose exposure

These include:
abdominal pain, gastroenteritis, nausea, excessive salivation, poor coordination, loss of appetite and weight loss, anuria (urine production stops), and nephritis (kidney disease).

Chronic exposure symptoms
Generally affects the central nervous system. Symptoms include tremor, depression, memory loss, irritability, abnormal reflex, lethargy. Other symptoms are muscle weakness, inflammation of the gums, and immune system dysfunction and renal damage.”

Excerpt above from:

http://www.balanceyournutrition.com/...y_toxicity.htm

Until I started seeing a practitioner to learn how to detoxify heavy metal safely after I had all the mercury from my teeth removed I was unaware that eating chicken can be a source of arsenic in the body, as ordinary chickens, at least until recently, were fattened using arsenic with the governments blessing. Scary. The next article from the NY Times discusses what happened to chickens we ate unsuspectingly for years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/dining/05well.html

Even if you do not have mercury fillings heavy metals could be part of the symptom picture for you. Drinking water may also be a source of heavy metal toxicity. Notice that tap water may also contain arsenic and other heavy metals. So you may want to have your water tested for heavy metals, even if you do not drink it, since you still bathe in it. I think that some feel safe about heavy metal toxicity as they do not have many mercury fillings or may have never had them. Still this next excerpt may leave you thinking about this:

“Heavy metal toxicity from drinking contaminated water:

It has been estimated that the ordinary American is exposed to tap water containing heavy metals at levels exceeding the safe upper limit.

With lead, for example, it is estimated that 40 million Americans drink water containing levels exceeding the safe limit set by the EPA. The lead contamination comes mainly from lead plumbing in older homes and soldered joints in copper pipes.

Other heavy metal found in tap water include copper and arsenic. Copper serves as a co-factor for many enzymes and is required in the diet in small amounts for normal health. However, high doses of copper is dangerous to health. A single dose of 15 mg copper can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. More severe toxicity can cause liver and kidney damage.

The copper in tap water comes from corrosion of copper pipes and can accumulate overnight. In this case flushing the tap before using the water is highly recommended.

Arsenic has been found in tap water in levels substantially exceeding the EPA safe limit in several areas of the country. For example, earlier this year a US Department of Health investigation found high levels of arsenic in tap water samples in Churchill County, Nevada, and In Iowa, several public water supplies were found in mid 2001 to have high arsenic levels. Because of the risks of cancer from arsenic levels below the current limit of 50 parts per billion, the EPA has set new standards of 10 ppb to take effect in 2006.

Mercury from environmental contamination (derived mainly from coal-fired power plants and medical and municipal incinerators) eventually enter our water system through soil, rivers, streams and lakes. The form of mercury hazardous in drinking water is the inorganic form, which can easily be converted to the organic form, methylmercury, by bacterial action present in soil and water environments. As discussed below this is the form that eventually enters our food chain.”

This also from:

http://www.balanceyournutrition.com/...y_toxicity.htm

[Kritters]

Hey TCM,

Thanks so much for that and all the other good information you post.

After posting earlier with questions to everyone about the fibers they see, I happened to look down at my forearm and one of the hairs looked a tad different so I plucked it out and took it to the scope. No one in the world would have questioned this hair except me or someone on this forum. Sure enough, it was not a hair but what looks to me to be a fungi, either attatching itself or coming from my arm. Could be either, since I know they're in me and around me.

I have been reading, learning, hearing so much negative input which is unfortunately true that is going on in this world, I've reached a point of numb hopelessness. I'm not writing this for people to post back with encouragement, and I'd be the first to do that for someone else. I'm writing it to say I don't know that I'll be posting for a while. I need to focus on anything positive I can find right now. It's really getting to me. I do think it's an involuntary control of my brain to a certain extent and I'm going to try to get it back. I've fallen down and I'm really struggling to get back up. I don't want to be a negative here, so I'll stay away as long as I can unless there's a good reason to join in.

xoxo
Kritts