Toxic Heavy Metals Hangouts

TOXIC METALS BUILD UP IN OUR SYSTEM – THEY SUPPRESS PRODUCTION OF VITAL SUBSTANCES ESSENTIAL FOR NORMAL CIRCULATION

Toxic heavy metals are found in all shapes, sizes, and varieties. See the following for an abbreviated scope of where these harmful toxins are found. See some common toxic heavy metal hangouts in everyday life.

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Hangouts For Toxic Heavy Metals

Exposure to heavy metals comes from different sources: the environment, in dust of the air you breathe, medications, personal care products, your water, and even your food. The three principal routes of entry are: the mouth, lungs, and skin. There are many heavy metals that decimate cell membrane health, but the major ones are mercury, lead, aluminum, cadmium and arsenic.

PRODUCTS

Adhesives

Air conditioner filters

Aluminum foil

Aluminum cookware

Amalgam dental fillings

Antacids

Antibiotics (various metals)

Antiperspirants, deodorants

Auto brake linings (lead, cadmium, antimony)

Baking powder

Batteries

Beer (arsenic)

Bleached flour

Body lotions and creams (many)

Calomel (talcum powder)

Cake Mixes (aluminum)

Canned goods (lead)

Ceramic plates, cookware

Chlorine bleaches (mercury)

Cigarettes

Coal burning power plants (mercury)

Cooking utensils

Coffee (cadmium)

Coffee creamers (non-dairy)

Corn bread (aluminum)

Cosmetics (most)

Cotton buds (mercury)

Dental bridges (aluminum)

Diuretics (mercury)

Dolomite (arsenic)

Douches (aluminum) Eye liner (antimony)

WATER

Fabric softeners (mercury)

Fish

Fertilizers

Flour tortillas (aluminum)

Fluoridated water

Food additives (aluminum)

Fungicides, herbicides, pesticides

Hair color restorer and rinses (lead)

Hemorrhoid

Household lawn, garden chemicals

Hydrogenated oils (nickel, cadmium)

Icing sugar (aluminum)

Inks used by printers and tattooist (mercury)

Instant soup powders

Laundry aids (arsenic)

Laxatives (mercury)

Medications, anti-inflammatory and pain (aluminum)

Mercurial diuretics (mercury)

Metal watch bands (nickel)

Microwave popcorn (aluminum)

Milk and cream powders

Paint pigments and solvents

Pizza crust (aluminum)

Prescription drugs (some)

Processed cheese

Refined grains (cadmium)

Rice (cadmium)

Rubber toys (lead)

Salt (mercury)

Sanitary towels (mercury)

FOOD

Selsun Blue shampoo (selenium-toxic in high doses)

Skin lotions (aluminum)

Soaps

Soft drinks (cadmium)

Solvents

Some paints

Stain resistant material (arsenic)

Storage batteries (lead)

Sewage sludge (mercury used widely for agriculture)

Suntan lotions

Table salt (aluminum)

Tap water

Tin cans

Tobacco smoke (arsenic)

Toothpicks (mercury)

Topical disinfectants (mercurochrome, merthiolate) (mercury)

Various occupations

Water running through lead pipes (lead)

Water softeners (cadmium)

Wood preservatives (mercury)

Heavy metals in general have no basic function in the body and can be highly toxic. High- concentration exposure is not necessary in order to produce a state of toxicity in the body. Most cases of heavy metal poisoning result from chronic low level exposure to these hazardous environmental toxins. In the last 50 years, human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically. This is the result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial processes and products. Today chronic exposure comes from toxic waste dump and burn sites, agriculture, chemical products, mercury amalgam dental fillings, lead-based paint, tap water, and chemical residues in processed foods. Personal care products, such as cosmetics, mouthwash, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and other hair care goods, are also sources of contamination. In addition to the hazards at home and outdoors, many occupations are subjected to daily heavy metal exposure. More than 50 professions are exposed to mercury on a daily basis. These include physicians, pharmaceutical workers, dentists, dental workers, laboratory workers, hairdressers, painters, printers, welders, metalworkers, cosmetic workers, battery makers, engravers, photographers, visual artists and potters.

Symptoms of Toxic Heavy Metals

Decreased intelligence in children, Nervous system disorders, Immune dysfunctions, Depression, Fatigue, Muscle weakness and aches, Anemia, Skin rashes, High blood pressure, Diarrhea, Nausea, Metallic taste in mouth, Irritability, Tremors, Cancer, Hyperactivity, Autism, Behavioral disorders, Headaches, Aggression, Violence.

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