How to detox from heavy metals
Why heavy metals disturb all body systems
The body displaces minerals for metals on a cellular level. This is how metals cause systemic poisoning. The body doesn’t just let go of metals.
Toxins have an affinity for fatty tissue like the brain and the breast (See natural cancer resources on toxins causing breast cancer). High mercury or aluminum levels cause many serious neuro diseases like dementia, ADHD, learning disabilities, autism.
There is 25 mcg of mercury in the flu vaccine (multi vial dose). There is 250 mcg of aluminum in the HEP A vaccine and the HEP B vaccine. Most vaccines have huge amounts of aluminum. Silver fillings release mercury vapors in every bite of hot and cold food since they are half mercury by weight. See more on their toxicity and how to remove them on IAOMT.org.
When heavy metals are released from the body with detox and a person eats a healthy diet, many neuro and chronic health problems can be reversed.
Limiting food toxins
Only consume organic produce, grains, nuts, seeds, chicken, meat. If someone eats dairy, it should only be raw, and preferably goat milk, not cow milk. See learn section what’s wrong with cow dairy. Glyphosate sprayed on nonorganic food causes inflammation, cancer, degenerative and chronic diseases. Read Toxic Legacy by Seneff to learn more. Non organic seeds are also made in a lab which makes GMO food into Frankenfood which cause cancer, and degenerative and chronic diseases. Read Seeds of Deception by Smith to learn more.
In the USA, Grass fed kosher organic meat and chicken can be purchased by kolfoods.com, backinthehay.com, and [email protected]. [email protected] also sells organic raw dairy products. Please check the kashrus certification.
Fish was a perfect food and a good source of omega 3 fatty acids needed for brain and nerve function, but it is now also a source of heavy metals and toxins from human manufacturing waste that polluted the oceans. Farmed fish is the worse choice as it contains PCBs and methylmercury. Pacific fish are full of cesium radioactive material since the Fukushima nuclear spill in 2011. Wild Atlantic fish would be the best water source choice. The smaller the fish, the better, since the less metals in the smaller fish like anchovies and sardines. In smaller fish, there is less buildup of metals (bioaccumulation), since when bigger fish eat smaller fish they take in the metals from the fish they ate. Also, fish sold in an aluminum can should not be purchased.
See learn section ‘how to remove toxins in the home’ to limit toxins absorbed through the skin and lungs.
A gluten, processed dairy, and sugar free diet is very important for detox.
Both gluten and dairy are damaging to the body because they cause leaky gut. Leaky gut causes systemic inflammation and serious chronic and degenerative disease.
Waters with natural silica in them (Fiji and Volvic) and homemade fermented/ probiotic foods are both the best heavy metal detox methods.
Fermented vegetables
Eat homemade probiotic foods. Probiotic vegetables are the most potent foods on earth. They will also help heal the gut which gets damaged from heavy metals. They help the body function better so to enhance the body’s own detox pathways. Make your own, so they are more potent. See videos or recipes on the learn section of the malkareichman.com website on how to ferment vegetables. You can reuse some brine from your first batch that was made with a starter culture, instead of using a starter in each new batch. The active brine from fermented vegetables can jumpstart the next batch of vegetables to ferment, like using a vegetable starter. ‘Fermented Vegetables’ by Shockey is a book of fermented vegetables recipes that don’t need a vegetable starter.
Chlorella
Certain algae like chlorella and spirulina are single cell microorganisms that have the unique ability to bind to heavy metals when ingested. These algae don’t break down further in the body because they are single cell and they have the ability to soak up metals which then get eliminated from the body. They are a very effective way of detox but one must make sure the source for the algae is clean from metals and radioactive substances. Because algae works as a sponge, if they are from a toxic source, they will soak up toxins at their source of origin. If someone consumes algae from an impure source, it is like eating a dirty sponge because they will be putting more toxins in their body. Algae must be checked by a third party lab that tests for radioactive substances and heavy metals to make sure it is free of these toxins. The Pacific Ocean is now severely polluted with radioactive nucleotides after the 2011 Fukushima radioactive spill that was dumped there. All Pacific fish is polluted with dangerous radioactive substances (Cesium 137). Algae that is sourced in the Pacific Ocean has been tested to be 100% Cesium 137. Algae is a very effective supplement to enable detox but the source must be checked very carefully. A source for chlorella is energybits.com and it’s 20% off with code MALKA.
Chlorella is very effective at pulling metals but it is controversial. Some say chlorella can pull metals from cells but they are just redeposited in the body and aren’t eliminated through elimination. Meaning they just get reabsorbed. A person should do more research.
If a person does want to eat chlorella, they should not start chlorella until they do a beet test for transit time.
How to test transit time: Eat one cooked whole beet and see how long it takes for the stool (not urine) to become red. (Fermented beets won’t color the stool red.)
The time it takes from input to output is someone’s transit time. A long transit time causes chronic illness. Since elimination is the body’s primary way of detox, a slow transit time means a person is reabsorbing toxins that are on the way out, but are backed up.
If someone takes chlorella and the cells release metals and then the body can’t excrete the metals fast enough, the metals will be reabsorbed into the body. If the body doesn’t have a clear and fast exit when the cells release metals after ingesting chlorella, the body will be flooded with heavy metals and the metals will be reabsorbed.
A person can start the heavy metal detox with chlorella after gut health is improved on have a transit time is 24h or less (for an adult or older child). Young children should be closer to 18h. (Babies or toddlers who are breastfeeding have a very fast transit time.)
For Westerners, 18h is a good transit time. But in countries where people eat a lot less food per day and eat more raw food, the transit time is very fast, soon after the meal. This is much healthier. A faster transit time means nutrients get absorbed fast toxins leave the body fast.
So gut health needs to be assessed in this way before using chlorella. If someone has a slow transit time, there are other steps to do to heal the gut which will speed up transit time. Good gut health usually means good overall health. Poor gut health usually means poor overall health or chronic disease.
How to Speed up transit time
Stay away from gluten, processed dairy, and sugar which cause leaky gut.
Have a smaller eating window. Only drink water outside the eating window. It will take about 2 weeks for the body to adjust to the time frame which can cause irregular bowel movements or a temporary constipated feeling, until the body adjusts. It is easier on the body to gradually reduce the eating window by 1 hour per week and not jump into the smaller eating window overnight.
Make sure to drink enough water which is half one’s body weight in fluid ounces.
Eat flaxseeds daily that were soaked first otherwise, they will pass through the body undigested.
Don’t eat processed foods that contain thousands of unlisted chemicals.
Only eat breads and cakes from flours that were fermented. Like sourdough and cakes made with a leaven.
Stay away from cold and frozen foods which slow digestion.
Essiac Herb Tea
This is a very gentle and effective way to help clean out the liver. The liver is the filter for the blood, and many chronic diseases are a result of toxicity. Drinking Essiac tea is like changing the AC filter in your house. A sluggish, overwhelmed liver means blood that is full of toxins.
Essiac tea is an over a 100 year recipe of blending 8 herbs: blessed thistle, burdock root, kelp, red clover, sheep sorrel, slippery elm bark, turkish rhubarb Root, and watercress. People take these herbs for wellness, to detox the liver, to heal from chronic diseases like autoimmune disease or cancer.
Original recipe using Essiac powder to create a nut butter bar modeled after the look and feel of the Perfect Bar brand. 4 oz essiac tea from genuineessiac.com, 2 cups organic almond butter,1 c water, ½ cup raw unfiltered honey, 2 tablespoons organic cacao.
Instructions: Add all ingredients to a bowl. Mix by hand. Place into a sheet of unbleached parchment paper. Shape into a long log. Freeze it. Once frozen, let it partially thaw to slice into pieces. Freeze pieces flat in separated pieces. Once frozen, combine pieces into a stainless container and store in the freezer. Eat straight from the freezer. Eat daily amount based on calculations provided by Genuineessiac.com.
Other ways to help heavy metal detox
Drink filtered water. This is the most important and most basic one. There are 60,000 chemicals in city tap water which puts a tremendous burden on the liver and the rest of the body. Limit new toxicity for the body to be able to detox from injected toxins (vaccines). Get a reverse osmosis filter that can filter out fluoride which is a very small chemical that can be removed through reverse osmosis. Fluoride is an endocrine disrupter and is a by-product of aluminum manufacturing. It does not prevent cavities! Fluoride is a chemical that damages the entire body. (Also get fluoride-free toothpaste). Chlorine in tap water causes cancer. An estimated 25 percent of bottled water is just tap water in a bottle. Several bottled water brands have elevated levels of arsenic which can cause lower IQ and cardiovascular disease. It is a huge burden to the liver to become a tap water filter. City water is a government solution, not drinking water that your body needs to sustain itself. The ideal drinking water is to have a well in the ground and then a whole house carbon filter which will still keep the water alkaline and all the natural minerals in the water. But can remove contamination of seepage from herbicides.
Eat cruciferous vegetables (fresh broccoli, fresh cauliflower, kale, cabbage, radishes). Packaged frozen broccoli and cauliflower are treated in a way that the sulforaphane enzymes are damaged so they won’t help with detox.
The herb cilantro is a powerful detoxifier. Get fresh organic cilantro. Either puree it in a blender to add to fresh squeezed lemon in water to make a liver detox drink. Or add cilantro to homemade fresh juice Cuisinart makes a good juicer. Or add some fresh cilantro to salad. Cilantro tastes great in vegetable soups but for detox purposes, raw cilantro works best. Kosher agencies, OU Kosher, Star K, and OK all have vegetable and herb insect checking guides online.
Myersdetox.com sells Citricleanse which is a combo detox product of cilantro, fumic acid and grapefruit pectin. You can use a smaller amount for a child based on weight.
Eat (organic) apples with the peel and seeds. Eating pectin helps detox. Pectin can be found in the apple peel and in the white part between the grapefruit and peel. You can use a knife to peel a grapefruit leaving as much as possible of the white part. The peel has pectin and the seeds are full of micronutrient B17 which destroys stem cancer cells. Since vaccines are full of carcinogens, eating apricot seeds and apple seeds which both are full of B17 is important to prevent cancer because they destroy cancer stem cells.
Putting on a liver castor oil pack at night helps liver function. The liver creates glutathione which is the molecule the body uses to remove toxins. (In contrast: acetaminophen/Tylenol removes glutathione, takes away the body’s natural way of getting rid of toxins, that’s why acetaminophen/ Tylenol been linked with autism and is so toxic.) To create more glutathione naturally (since eating synthetic glutathione in pill form isn’t recommended), you smear organic castor oil (hexane free) on the skin by the liver, generously. You can buy organic castor oil (hexane free) in a glass bottle from vitacost.com. The liver is on the front right side of the body below the ribs. Then you take a cotton flannel scarf or cotton towel to place on top of the oil on the skin and strap fabric ends around the body by sewing or safety pinning on velcro or elastic straps. The cotton fabric around the body protects the night clothes and sheets from getting oil stains. When the castor oil sinks into the skin all night, a person will see a better bowel movement the next morning which is the body getting rid of toxins. Dr. Marisol (Queen of the Thrones) shows you how to use this. You don’t need a fancy kit. You can use cotton fabric that is absorbent (like a cotton baby pad from Target) and then sew elastic on each end to make self ties.
Herbalist-Alchemist.com sells individual tinctures of ground ivy, cilantro, reishi mushrooms that can be combined in a glass dropper bottle in equal parts to create one herbal tincture. An adult (approx. 150 lb.) should take 1 full dropper diluted in a cup of water twice a day. Adjust amount for a child based on weight.
Herbs like milk thistle help the liver detox. You can buy organic milk thistle seeds at vitacost.com or nuts.com and then use a coffee grinder like from Krups to grind it fresh and add it to smoothies and breakfast bars.
Heavy metal detox symptoms:
Sometimes, in some cases, there can be detox symptoms. It’s important to be aware of that sometimes when the body is detoxing, moving metals to eliminate them, there can be detox symptoms: Fatigue, joint pain, skin rashes, feeling emotional, flu like symptoms are some common symptoms. The last thing you want to do is get a steroid cream which is an immunosuppressant for a detox rash. Geranium, lavender, myrrh and manuka essential oils added to a glass jar and diluted with coconut oil can help soothe the rash.
If detox symptoms are too hard, you can go slower on detox. Do not be concerned about these or other strange, sudden symptoms. Just let the body detoxify and eventually the symptoms will go away. Then the body will have less toxins and it will be overall much healthier. Detox symptoms may come weeks after a detox starts. If detox symptoms are too strong, you can continue detoxing at a slower pace.