19/02/2026
Heavy metals - more like base camp than boot camp!
Health conscious people are wanting to eradicate pathogenic stowaways and the heavy metals that provide cosy hiding spots for them to hide them from immune surveillance. This awareness is certainly growing but I want to add that heavy metal chelation is not a quick process.
Just like tape wroms can live in our bodies for up to 40 years, heavy metals settle deep in our tissues - even at a bone level.
We are eating minute amounts daily and we even inherit them.
Heavy metals can cross the placenta.
I did a hair analysis on my son and was aghast to discover circulating metals in my three year old. How did they get there?
Dial back a bit, his parents were both smokers for some time and my parents were both smokers. There's cadmium.
Both of his parents lived in an era of lead-based paints and leaded petrol - there's lead.
Both parents would have had required v. schedules as children and exposed to pesticides, herbicides from orchards, market gardens when lead arsenate may have been used - these would have been ingested.
Heavy metal exposure is so insidious and cumulative we don't understand the scope of what we are dealing with.
If you have been working with arsenic-treated wood (carpenters, builders), steel alloys and machinery (car mechanics, mill operators, machine equipment) you are exposed to metal dust.
They are invisible poisons and underscore invisible diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme, Epstein barr etc.
Metals settle deep in intestinal recesses, brain tissue, muscles, bones and get given fancy medical names. They interfere with other minerals such as potassium, iron, copper and zinc.
Consider what your minerals are doing when dealing with health issues because they play such an understated role in complex health issues.
Teasing these minerals out requires care and consideration and understanding the rollercoaster and plateaus that come with their eviction.
Baseline testing with urine analysis or hair analysis for these minerals is available and follow up testing is something I strongly advocate for to track and trace your journey.
