Free Radicals and Toxic Heavy Metals

Free Radicals And Toxic Heavy Metals

Cells
Toxins

Cells

Each cell is unique and plays a specific role. Cells communicate through cell surface membrane biochemical pathways that support health of the total being.

Cells form tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems make up your body
Cells communicate through cell surface membrane biochemical pathways that support health of the total being
When cells and membranes are healthy, you experience optimal energy and vitality!

Toxins

Each cell is like a mini-person. Membranes pull in nutrition, keep out undesirable toxins and pathogens (such as bacteria and viruses), and eliminates waste.

Each cell has a “brain” called the nucleus that directs and regulates its daily activities
“Fuel centers” in each cell called mitochondria give the energy it needs to carry out its unique and special roles
There’a also various other organelles (subunits) within the cell that assist it in its tasks

EDTA Destroys Free Radicals

One of the main benefits of EDTA Chelation therapy is its ability to quench free radicals. Free radical pathology (oxidative stress) is the kernel of all aging processes. Regardless of the theory, the biology of aging ultimately culminates in oxidative stress (OS). Oxidative Stress is the imbalance between free radicals and available endogenous and exogenous antioxidants.

Oxidative stress has been linked to many human disease conditions. These include atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, to name a few. It has also been associated with normal physiological phenomena like the “aging process” and “cataract formation” in the eye. There is increasing evidence that many of the other risk factors associated with atherosclerotic vascular disease (AVD) (smoking, hyperhomocysteinemia, etc.) are linked with oxidative stress and the resultant free radical-mediated damage.

These molecules are unstable because they are missing an electron. Where complete oxygen atoms contain a nucleus with paired electrons orbiting around it, a free radical has only one electron.

Cell Pirates

These molecules are unstable because they are missing an electron.

Renegades

These “renegade” molecules then seek to make themselves “whole” by robbing cell membranes of their electrons.

Multiplies

Stealing electrons from other molecules, the free radical creates another free radical.

Aging

Leads to an ever-perpetuating chain reaction of cellular damage- accelerating the disease and aging process.

Where The Real Action Starts

The cell membrane is made up of specialized lipids (fats). The molecules of this membrane are, unfortunately, very susceptible to “oxidative damage” from free radicals. This is where the cell membrane is literally being burned.

Free radicals trigger a chemical reaction called lipid peroxidation, which causes the cell membrane to stiffen. This condition harms the ability of the cell membrane to accept nutrients, receive signals from other cells, or eliminate waste products. Many other cellular activities and molecules can be affected, as well-including RNA, DNA and protein enzymes.

Heavy metal toxicity is at the root of many incurable conditions, and it is not going to go away.

Sherry Rogers MD
DETOXIFY OR DIE

Increasingly Toxic World

Today we have to cope with an ever-increasing load of toxins in this industrial 21st century. They include air pollutants and heavy metal contaminants. However, nearly 100 years of evidence shows that a process known as chelation can effectively address our modern heavy metal issues.

Free radicals produced in the cell itself comprise only a fraction of the “oxidative stress” load with which the cell must cope. Other sources of free radicals include air pollutants and exposure to heavy metal contaminants. These renegade molecules oxidize or burn holes in the cell membranes and this action can lead to cell death.

Injures Mitochondrial DNA

Once free radicals breach the cell’s membrane barrier-its first line of defense- they target the secondary lipid-rich membranes surrounding the mitochondria, the cell’s power plant. The mitochondria take in fats and carbohydrates and with the oxygen we breathe, transforms these substances into vital energy.

Through the ignition process, some of the combusted oxygen produces free electrons, generating free radicals. They are then funnelled within the mitochondria in a kind of feedback loop, producing the high energy bond of ATP. Within the confine of the mitochondria, these free radicals are useful. However, outside of this safety chamber, they wreak havoc. This scenario can be compared to a fire. It is very beneficial inside the regulated space of a fireplace, keeping a home warm. But if it starts a fire on the sofa, it will consume the home. Likewise, if free radicals breach the delicate membranes of the mitochondria, they can also attack the nucleus, the command center of the cell and its cellular blueprint, the DNA. The DNA is the instruction book which tells the cell, biochemically, how to function. The cell has the ability to fix much of the damage done to nuclear DNA; however, wounded mitochondrial DNA is not as easy to repair.

Injury to mitochondrial DNA accumulates over time. It interferes with the cell’s energy and is very serious. This can be compared to giving you a heart attack. The cell then dies and the body is on a fast track to disease and premature aging. Free radical damage, therefore, is a basic route of tissue injury-by first wounding or killing the cell. The damage arising from a cell can then spread to nearby cells, tissues, organs and systems that may finally overwhelm the body, causing a chronic disease state leading to death.

We are all slowly burning to death. Chelation is like calling the fire department to remove the burning embers, the burning embers constantly touching your cell membranes. This is literally the roof of your cellular home. Toxic heavy metals in your body compound free radical generation many fold-thousands and possibly even several million times over. When free radicals bump into toxic metal atoms, they literally explode in both activity and quantity. Like a small ember sets an entire house on fire, a small blaze of free radicals generates a huge blaze of cell membrane oxidation. Therefore, it makes sense that when you remove toxic metals (these burning embers) from the body, you greatly minimize the number and damage of free radicals they can recruit.

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