CHEESESLAVE

Some background…

Around January/February, I started having some odd symptoms — tingling and pins and needles in my hands and heart palpitations.

“Exposure to lower levels can cause nausea and vomiting, decreased production of red and white blood cells, abnormal heart rhythm, damage to blood vessels, and a sensation of “pins and needles” in hands and feet.”
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My dentist (a WAPF dentist, Dr. Raymond Silkman) suggested in March that I could have heavy metal toxicity. I ordered a urine analysis and found that I have very high levels of arsenic. At first I thought maybe it was in the drinking water. Of course, I have only had filtered water since last October.

Also, Seth did the urine analysis, too, and he did not show high levels of arsenic. So that rules out anything he and I are both consuming. It has to be something I am eating that he is not eating. Which is not very many things.

I’ve been taking the Iodoral for over a month now and the pins and needles in my hands has reduced — the Iodoral helps the body chelate the heavy metals.

But the tingling in my hands is still there faintly, manifesting as a slight numbness.

I’ve been thinking and thinking — what did I change in my diet? What am I consuming that might have arsenic? I asked the Universe to solve this problem for me. “Show me where the arsenic is coming from.”

Ask and ye shall receive.

I got a comment from my friend this morning regarding liver. She wrote to ask if she should eat still liver when she can’t seem to find organic liver in France. I said, “You could always take a dessicated liver tablet.”

That’s when it hit me. I started taking Solgar dessicated liver supplements in October or November of last year. Solgar Liver tablets are recommended by the WAPF. I’ve been taking 6 per day to rebuild my nutritional stores after having Kate. Seth has not been taking the liver tablets.

I looked on the back of the bottle. The Solgar dessicated liver tablets are made from the livers of cattle in Argentina.

I did a little research online and found that there are very high levels of arsenic in the groundwater in Argentina.

In the region of Cordoba, Argentina, Arguello et al. (1938) reported maximum levels of arsenic of between 0.9 and 3.4 mg/litre. Source

“In his presentation, Professor Smith cast some doubt on the role of nutrition in combating poisoning. His study in Argentina showed that Argentinians of European origin, on high protein diet (beef steak), have also been suffering from Arsenic poisoning since the 1930s.” Source

In Argentina, groundwater arsenic concentration in some places ranges from 100 to 2000 microgram/l. Reports from epidemiological studies in Argentina indicated that 0.3mg/l arsenic in drinking water resulted in increased incidences of hyperkeratosis and skin cancer with an increased consumption of water (Trelles, et al., 1970). Source

Is it possible that that I am getting the arsenic from the Solgar dessicated liver tablets? It certainly seems likely, based on the above information. I never had these symptoms (pins and needles and heart palpitations) before. And it is odd that only I have high levels of arsenic — not Seth.

I am going to stop taking them and see if the tingling in my hands goes away. If it does go away, I’m going to see about having these pills tested. I want to know if they have arsenic in them. Anyone know a scientist or doctor who has access to a lab? How do you send something in to be tested?

We had our phone consultation to go over our test results with Dr. Flechas yesterday. He said that Seth and I are both iodine deficient and we should both take 50 mg of Iodoral per day — for a year. He said in one year, we’ll do the tests again and see where we are.

He said the Iodoral will help us excrete the heavy metals from our system — and he said that in a year’s time, all our heavy metal numbers should go down to zero.

He asked me if I knew how I could have gotten so much arsenic. I have no idea! He said I should look into that. Seth doesn’t have high arsenic — so it must have been something I ate or consumed before I met Seth. It’s not something that is affecting us now (i.e., not in our drinking water), otherwise Seth would have high arsenic too. But he doesn’t.

Seth has high aluminum. Not anywhere near as high as my arsenic levels (this explains the tingling in my hands). After that call, he agreed to throw away his mainstream deodorant and start using my “hippie” deodorant from Terressentials.

We are both high in uranium. Dr. Flechas said it would be a good idea to have our water tested. We have been drinking distilled water only for months now, but I am curious to know what is in the water supply. I asked Dr. Flechas if we can absorb water through the bath or shower, and he said he didn’t know.

Dr. Flechas also told us to take something called ATP Cofactors, because it helps the Iodoral “stick” better. And I asked him about giving Lugol’s to Kate. He said absolutely — 1 drop per day. He said this is really important because iodine has a lot to do with intelligence in children (iodine deficiency is associated with mental retardation and cretinism) and by age 2, her IQ will be set. So we started giving her the Lugol’s yesterday.

I forgot to ask him if it is safe to breastfeed with this much arsenic in my system if I’m taking the Iodoral and excreting it. I know it gets dumped in the breast milk. I will email the lab and ask the assistant to ask him.

I have a feeling though that I won’t be able to breastfeed for a while. It takes a while to get all of this junk out of your system. And, as wonderful as it is for Kate to drink breast milk, I don’t like the idea of her getting a bunch of arsenic. Thank goodness we have the homemade raw milk formula.

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.