Will heavy metals, toxins or mold hinder my recovery on the MP?
This question assumes that
1. heavy metals and exogenous toxins have in fact accumulated
2. that they are intrinsically bad at these concentrations
I know there are lots of theories about what causes chronic disease, and I know that many of them are very seductive for somebody who knows only enough about medicine to recognize simple chemical names and interactions. Possibly your medical comprehension is more comprehensive than that, but, if it is not, you really shouldn't allow others to persuade you that heavy metals (or exogenous toxins) are going to be any hindrance to your recovery.
The mercury is not a factor. Mercury has become associated with these chronic diseases because the body cannot clear heavy metals when the immune system becomes overloaded with Th1 pathogens. But once patients recover on the MP they no longer exhibit elevated mercury or lead levels. So mercury is just another "co-infection," if you like, just like Babesia and the other things that are often observed with Th1 disease, but are not causative, just 'associated.'
The increased concentration of heavy metals in folks with Th1 disease is the RESULT of the weakened immune system, and not the CAUSE of it.
The key thing is to kill the pathogenic bacteria, to deal with the cytokine release which results from the bacterial die-off, and to deal with phagocyte and bacterial fragments (including proteins/endotoxins, etc.)
Once the immune system becomes weakened it is unable to clear mercury, and so the heavy metals build up in the body. I doubt they reach toxic levels though. And certainly we have seen that the neurological diseases are caused by the plethora of metagenomic pathogens, not by something simple like heavy metals.
Heavy metals and exogenous toxins are not a significant factor in recovery from CFIDS or Chronic Lyme, or Sarcoidosis (Folk recover on the MP while their mouths are still full of mercury amalgam).
There is absolutely no way that mold has got the pathogenic ability to cause Th1 disease. Period.
The MP is a curative therapy, we kill the bacteria underlying the disease process so that the patient is returned to full health.
..Trevor..
"While there is no doubt that heavy metals cause the body's biochemistry to malfunction, and that metals are attracted to the active sites of inflammation, there is no reason to believe that the heavy metals actually cause the inflammation, even though they may help fuel it. An excellent example of this is berylliosis, which, until recetly, was thought to be an environmental disease. Now it is recognized as a Th1 disease. Early investigators found the beryllium in the inflamed tissue, and thought that beryllium caused the inflammation, but now those ideas are having to be entirely re-thought as we understand more and more of the human genome."
..Trevor..
Those who understand how vaccines are manufactured, also understand that there are far more sinister components in them than mercury.
Based on several recent studies, I believe that mercury is a red-herring. The real problem with vaccines is contamination with L-form bacteria, and, to an unknown extent, the effect on our immune system of challenging it with vaccines (you need to read what I have written about my "sequential infectious history" hypothesis.
..Trevor..
Inflammation increases copper and decreases zinc. This is because the inflammatory process results in an accumulation of zinc-containing proteins in the liver and increased liver synthesis of ceruloplasmin, which is the copper-binding protein. Refer to: Serum zinc and copper in active rheumatoid arthritis: correlation with interleukin 1 beta and tumour necrosis factor alpha.
The take home message is that
1. Most of the population currently has some extent of Th1 inflammation (luckily most are still subclinical) and that
2. The presence of heavy metals is a sign that the immune system is not properly handling the excretion of heavy metals.
When the immune system has been restored by the MP, the heavy metals will be properly excreted without any specific intervention. Further, we have seen no evidence that the folk in our cohort who have undergone chelation during their MP treatment have progressed faster, indeed, I seen some who have dropped out and stayed with the chelation (palliative) approach.
Palliative or curative therapy is a decision which must be made by the individual.
It is not possible to design a chelation agent that will target mercury, for example, and not target other bivalent metals, including iron and calcium, to some degree. There is very little selectivity in the chelating agents, despite what the manufacturers would have you believe. A bivalent metal is a bivalent metal.
..Trevor..
Don't waste your money getting tested for heavy metals. Your body will excrete them properly once the Th1 pathogens have been conquered.
..Trevor..
Related FAQs:
Chelation
Why do I have to stop taking supplements?
MCS success
Mercury fillings
Why has there been a sharp rise in the incidence of Th1 inflammatory diseases?
Last edited on Tue Apr 29th, 2008 14:00 by Foundation Staff
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