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March 12, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Why heavy metals are so toxic to your body: lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic
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Why is it bad to eat high levels of aluminum or, let's say, copper, arsenic, cadmium, cesium?
Well, we're not going to talk about cesium that much.
That's more for the radioactive discussion, or the discussion of radioactivity, mercury and lead.
Why is it bad to eat these things?
Well, I'm going to explain that here.
My name is Mike Adams.
I'm the director here of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
And I am the one who conducts the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry testing, the elemental analysis of foods for contaminants.
And we're finding high levels of aluminum, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and many other things in the food supply.
So I thought I would show you why that matters here.
So first, let's talk about organs affected by aluminum.
Is probably, I don't know, do you think some Americans might consider the brain important?
I'd say about 49% of the voters at this point.
Okay, I'll try to keep it serious.
But seriously, if you look at aluminum and Alzheimer's disease, I'm searching naturalnews.com for this, you'll see that their aluminum is actually linked to aluminum intake.
Avoid aluminum here.
Let's see.
Flu vaccines contain aluminum.
What's really in vaccines?
Wow.
Children's medicines are coated with aluminum?
That's crazy.
You never know what you're going to find when you search around.
Anyway, if you search the medical literature too, or the science literature, you'll find that aluminum is linked to Alzheimer's and dementia.
And it's not entirely clear in the medical science realm what exactly, how aluminum causes this, but there is a link that has been established.
So we've just posted this, check that out.
Now let's go to, let's see, copper.
Well now copper makes people crazy.
Copper is something that affects both your brain and your liver.
When it accumulates, well first it accumulates in your liver.
And you get this from water in copper pipes, for example, but there's also a lot of copper added to some nutritional supplements and there's high copper found in certain foods.
And you can find out the results by clicking on foods here on our lab's website and you can see, for example, oh look, this wheatgrass has 10.9 parts per million of copper in it.
So you can always click around and you can find out how much copper is in which food.
Over time, a large amount of copper can cause toxicity.
Now, a small amount of copper is actually important nutritively, but copper has something called a very narrow range of efficacy, where if you are completely deficient in copper, you're going to have symptoms of copper deficiency.
But you only need a little bit, and then if you start to get too much, which happens very quickly, you can have toxic symptoms of copper overload, which begins to show up in your brain and can cause schizophrenia and different types of insanity.
In fact, I believe most people who are in insane asylums and psychiatric wards actually have copper toxicity or heavy metals imbalance.
Also, many people who are prisoners You know, violent criminals in particular have copper toxicity in their brains.
So we need to really rethink the justice system in America as well.
We throw people in prison, but we don't treat their copper toxicity, which affects their brain, which affects their behavior, which can increase their mood disorders and their risk of committing violent crimes.
I'm not saying that people aren't responsible for their actions, but I am saying that copper can make you crazy and make you do crazy things.
Kind of like, you know, I guess alcohol.
You know, alcohol can make you crazy.
Or crack, or whatever.
So we fill our prisons with people who need to be detoxed.
Instead, they're just, I don't know, punished and taught gang warfare or something.
Anyway, let's go on to arsenic.
So arsenic is very, very toxic, and this is found in many water supplies around the world.
It's a common contaminant in wells.
Throughout Asia and India, for example.
Along with fluoride, by the way, fluoride is a very common contaminant in well water.
And fluoride is a highly toxic substance as well.
Especially synthetic fluoride.
Really, synthetic is not the right word.
Fluorosilicic acid, in other words, fluoride bound to complex molecules that have toxic effects in the human body.
That's what's dumped into the water supply.
In the United States, by the way.
So arsenic toxicity causes DNA damage and that's why arsenic is linked to an increase in cancer rates and that's why there are so many efforts now around the world to remove arsenic from wells or to remediate the arsenic using different types of filtration techniques and even phytoremediation methodologies that can remove arsenic from the water supply.
And yeah, yeah, the FDA allowed arsenic in chicken meat for many, many years.
They just finally banned a drug that was made of arsenic.
I think that was called Roxarsane, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Let's move on to cadmium.
Now this one is the most fascinating toxic heavy metal.
Cadmium is very deadly to your kidneys.
It can cause permanent kidney failure.
But it takes a lot of cadmium accumulation over time to have that kind of result.
Cadmium also affects skin health and can cause many, many skin disorders.
It's bad for the lungs and bone.
But what's not even listed on this chart is that cadmium causes personality changes.
This is what's really fascinating about cadmium.
Cadmium is actually a stimulant.
And a lot of people don't know this about heavy metals, but mercury, for example, was used as a medicine for many, many years by physicians.
They would have people inhale mercury vapors, and they would use mercury salts as a form of medicine.
This was actually used to treat diarrhea or to treat viral infections, lots of different things.
And the reason that mercury was so successful as a medicine It's actually mentioned in some of the old Merck medical manuals, as used by doctors for, I don't know, decades, many, many decades, is because mercury actually stimulates you.
It feels like a little energy boost at first.
It feels like you're getting better.
And cadmium has a similar kind of effect.
So if you take in cadmium, you get a surge.
What's interesting about this is that cadmium is a very common contaminant in coffee.
So a lot of people who drink coffee are actually addicted to cadmium.
Yeah, I'm going to say that again because most people don't get that.
The reason people drink coffee is not just the caffeine.
Many people are actually addicted to cadmium.
They need a surge of cadmium.
Now cadmium turns you into a bully.
It turns you into an aggressive person.
It gives you a very male macho type of profile.
It's great for people who are, let's say, day traders on Wall Street or people who want to Push other people around, people who scream a lot, people who are angry a lot.
They tend to be cadmium addicts.
But at the same time that it's altering their personality, it's also hardening their arteries.
Cadmium is a metal that actually creates a hardening of the personality and a hardening of the physiology at the same time, which is one of the ways in which it causes renal failure, kidney problems.
So cadmium is very important to avoid, and it's found, in fact, by the way, here in this Pocari cacao powder, at some level, it's commonly found in cacao and coffee.
So that's something you really would like to avoid, I would say.
Mercury.
Very toxic, heavy metal, neurotoxic, affects babies, developmental toxin.
It's also very toxic to your neurology, and many people believe that it is linked to autism as well, which is why vaccines that contain mercury May very often be linked to autism.
In fact, let me prove to you that vaccines still contain mercury because many people have been lied to by the vaccine industry and told that, well, all the mercury's been removed.
Really?
Well, then why does the CDC right here on its vaccines additive page, which I'm going to show you right here, This is the CDC. Sorry, I'm showing you videos in the background there.
This is the CDC webpage.
CDC.gov.
Ingredients of vaccines fact sheet.
If you scroll down, oh, here it is.
Common substances found in vaccines include thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative.
Right there.
There you go.
Oh, also, if you want a little formaldehyde in your blood, which is suicidal, you can get a vaccine.
Or if you want to shoot up some MSG, yeah, go get a vaccine.
If you want antibiotics injected in your bloodstream, just get a vaccine.
Or how about some aluminum, you know, for your brain?
Yeah.
Go get a flu shot.
That'll give you more of that.
So there you go.
So mercury is actually in vaccines and it's very highly toxic.
Oh, in fact, look at this.
Here's an article on autism and mercury toxicity.
So let's go to the next toxin.
Oops, here we go.
Come on.
Heavy metals.
Lead.
All right.
Now, lead has a very large range of toxic effects in the human body.
As you're going to see from this chart that we put together for you, it affects kidneys, heart, brain, bones.
Especially bones.
Intestines, reproduction, many things.
Let me talk about bones here for a second, though, because when you take in a lot of lead...
It obviously goes through your intestinal walls and then goes into your bloodstream.
From your blood then the lead is typically transported into your bones.
Lead has a high affinity for calcium because of the ionic profile of calcium and lead tend to be mutually attractive.
and you can see that from the periodic table of elements by the way calcium right here and lead being over here they they have opposite charges typically and they want to combine in many molecules so where you find calcium you're actually going to find typically oops that's mercury typically you're going to find some amount of lead that's why some calcium supplements by the way are contaminated with lead that's been well documented But a lot of the lead ends up in your bones.
Now, it will stay in your bones for decades, typically.
So a lot of women, once they reach an age where they start to experience menopause and their hormones start to really shift around, they will start to actually dissolve bones more aggressively than when they were younger.
They will begin to release lead from their skeletal structure.
I guess I should be pointing over here.
And once they release lead from their skeleton during these hormonal changes, they will actually create acute lead toxicity in their circulating blood, which then can further affect their heart, their kidneys, and even their brain.
So you actually have a re-poisoning effect of lead.
If you were exposed to high levels of lead when you were younger, and remember there was lead in gasoline in the United States for many decades.
It was called leaded gasoline, if you remember, back in the 70s and 80s and long before that.
I think they started that in the 1940s, in fact.
You had a lot of lead in your bones and then as you got older some of that lead was being released in your bloodstream causing secondary poisoning or what you might call you know how you have secondhand smoke well this this could be called sort of recirculated or secondhand lead poisoning in your body so there's a lot of lead toxicity that you need to be concerned with now the good news is that a lot of this lead We'll actually be ferreted into your upper gastrointestinal tract coming out of these organs here,
your gallbladder, your liver, and you can actually, if you combine with the lead in your gastrointestinal tract, you can ferret that lead out of your body so that it does not get reabsorbed in your bloodstream a second time.
But to do that, you have to have a healthy diet.
So you have to have a diet of more unprocessed, unrefined fruits and vegetables with high levels of natural insoluble fiber.
Very interesting, isn't it?
So if you are, let's say, drinking this suja carrot juice, that's not going to help you very much.
But if you drink something that has a natural fiber or you just eat some apples and you happen to...
the apple fiber intersects here in your upper gastrointestinal tract with lead that's been captured and dumped into your upper GI tract, then the apple fiber is actually going to help bind to that and carry it through and carry it out of your body.
So, going back to heavy metals.
And I know I'm kind of rushing through this, but I'm trying to just give you an overview.
Now you might wonder, why is cesium and uranium here on this list?
Well, it's because cesium, I study cesium because we are looking for cesium-137.
Cesium-137 is one of the many radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring cesium, which has an atomic mass of 133.
So this normal 133 isotope is not dangerous.
I want to be very clear about that.
There's cesium everywhere.
There's cesium in many of these foods that we have here at the lab's website.
That's not dangerous.
It's cesium-137 that is dangerous because cesium-137 decays into cesium-133 with a half-life of about 30 years, which means it persists in the environment for 200 to 300 years, making soils unusable for agriculture.
Now, if you go back to the periodic table of elements and you look at cesium, it's right here.
And cesium happens to share the same outer shell electron profile, or a very similar profile, to potassium, which is here.
Potassium is, of course, a very important nutritive element.
It's found in many, many foods, but it's also used in human metabolism and physiology.
It's an element of every cell of your body, and it happens to be that cesium mimics potassium.
Everything that's in the same column tends to kind of mimic the other things in that column.
For example, cadmium mimics zinc.
So if you get a lot of cadmium in your diet, it's going to go to places in your cells that zinc would normally want to go.
Same thing is true with mercury, which is just below cadmium.
Mercury and cadmium have a similar...
Outer shell electron arrangement, which sort of establishes some of their chemical behavior in interactions with other chemicals that you may have consumed through foods.
For example, phytonutrients, phytochemicals, things like that.
Nutritive elements, other minerals.
So, by the way, this also gives you some clues as to what you can do to prevent cadmium toxicity.
You can take extra zinc.
So if you have more zinc in your body, you're going to actually...
Positively compete with cadmium absorption and you're going to minimize cadmium absorption by taking more zinc.
So there's really a lot that I can teach you here about the table of elements.
In fact, there's so much ever since I got myself clean and got my brain clean of all these toxic metals.
I can hardly translate everything that I want to tell you into these videos and articles.
There's just so much to share with you.
There's so much amazing knowledge found in this table of elements if you understand the relationships of these elements and their various isotopes.
But getting back to cesium and potassium.
If you have more potassium in your dietary intake, you're going to have less absorption of radioactive cesium.
But the real question is, can you block radioactive cesium-137 if you were to be able to consume it?
And I'm working on that in the lab.
So I'm using atomic spectroscopy instrumentation right now, ICP-MS methodologies and research, to develop a natural dietary substance that can block cesium-137.
And I expect to be announcing that very soon.
So that's pretty exciting stuff.
But anyway, continuing on with this, uranium is another element that you might wonder, why is that listed here?
Well, because of radioactive uranium, U-235, is found in the aftermath of nuclear accidents and nuclear war.
And you might wonder, what can actually absorb uranium-235 so that you can avoid that?
Well, it turns out that chlorella is actually a great binding superfood with uranium.
And spirulina as well.
So both Hawaiian Spirulina and Clean Chlorella, which is what, those are our brands, that's what we sell at the Natural News Store, have been scientifically validated via ICP-MS using really university-level instrumentation.
In fact, let me show you that.
Let me show you some of the instruments that I use.
Here we go.
The Forensic Food Lab Tour.
That's just one of the digestion products.
Yeah, see?
Right there.
This is the ICP-MS instrument that I use to conduct some of this research.
These are the sample cones and the skimmer cone for taking in the plasma stream that goes into the instrument.
And these are some of the instruments that I use.
There's a centrifuge for separating out Dissolve solids in food.
This is the auto-sampler that we use to feed samples into the ICP-MS. And anyway, I'm not going to bore you with all this stuff, but through this, we're able to really tell you how much uranium is in a food.
So if you look at, let's look at this guy right here.
Check it out.
This has got a certain amount of uranium in it, averaging 322 parts per billion of uranium.
But remember, this is a naturally occurring uranium, so this is not the radioactive uranium, and this is not a problem.
This right here is naturally occurring.
And in fact, it's got 19 parts per billion of cesium, which again is not a problem.
But if these were radioactive isotopes, then that would be a problem.
So you obviously don't want to eat radioactive seaweed.
Anyway, I hope that sort of explains some of why you would want to avoid all of these metals.
So again, just review.
Aluminum can be toxic to your brain.
Copper can make you crazy.
Arsenic causes DNA damage and cancer.
Cadmium causes kidney damage, hardening of the arteries, and personality changes that make you a crazy screaming bully.
And mercury, which by the way may make you very successful in the workplace.
You could get a job working for anybody on Wall Street with that kind of personality.
Mercury, very toxic to developing babies and to your neurological organs, brain most notably.
Lead is toxic also to your brain but also toxic to many other organs.
Including, really, lungs as well as digestive tract and...
Actually, I'm just going to bring it up.
And your bones being the biggest one for lead.
So, that's why you want to avoid these heavy metals.
Now, let me just...
I'm going to wrap this up, but here's a final discussion on this.
Many companies that have these at high levels in their foods might say, well, there's nothing wrong with these.
They are naturally occurring...
Toxins, or they would say minerals or metals.
They are naturally occurring, they would say, in their foods.
And they say that because they say, well, there's lead in the soil.
Therefore, it's naturally occurring.
Well, that's actually very dishonest to make that claim.
How did the lead get in the soil?
Why is there more lead in some soils than others?
Some soils have 10,000 times more lead than other soils.
The answer is because those soils have been polluted by industrial pollution.
So, for example, if I have...
Let's go to...
Let's go to cadmium.
If I have very high levels of cadmium, In a water supply that's being used to irrigate, let's say, rice production, that cadmium is going to go into rice because rice is a very water-intensive crop that tends to uptake a tremendous amount of cadmium, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals.
So that rice product, maybe it's brown rice, maybe it's some kind of extract from rice or a byproduct of rice, is going to show very high levels of cadmium and very high levels of lead.
That is not naturally occurring lead or cadmium.
That is actually pollution of the rice that has been taken up by the plant roots and incorporated into the tissue of the plant.
So that's a pollutant.
That is a contaminated rice product, not naturally occurring.
So don't believe everybody that says, oh, these are naturally occurring, or that these are harmless, whatever, this and that.
No, actually, in fact, we're all being poisoned by these toxic heavy metals.
Lead is making our nation stupid.
It's lowering IQs, damaging cognitive function.
It's damaging cognitive function so much that when I use the phrase cognitive function, I get complaints from people who say, you're trying to be Mr.
Fancy Pants by using the word cognitive.
Seriously, I get that complaint.
That's how much lead has damaged people.
Mercury associated with autism.
Cadmium makes people crazy.
You know, crazy aggressive is what I should say.
Angry, kind of dishonest, you know, like willing to do anything to get ahead.
That's the cadmium profile.
Arsenic causes cancer.
Copper causes insanity.
People are freaking crazy.
Like really crazy.
Aluminum makes everybody, you know, have early onset Alzheimer's and dementia forgetfulness.
They can't think straight.
And you combine aluminum with lead, you get the U.S. voter.
If you think about it, voters can't process information.
So the people that go to the voting booths, and I'm not ragging on one side or the other, all the voters are effectively cognitively impaired, or virtually all of them.
So they can't analyze information, which is exactly how we get...
Let me show you this.
Well, actually, I'm just going to bring it up.
Let's see.
The National Debt Clock.
Here we go.
U.S. debt clock.
That's it.
Right here.
This is how we get this.
The U.S. national debt over 17 trillion dollars.
Debt per citizen, $54,000.
Debt per taxpayer, $150,000.
How did we get there?
Mercury, lead, copper, cadmium, poisoning.
It dumbed everybody down to where they can't understand this page.
And as a result, every politician that goes to the White House or goes to Washington, you name it, Obama, Bush, Reagan, Carter, everybody, they keep spending us into financial destruction because they know the voters are too stupid to understand compounding interest, which is what you're seeing right here.
That the voters are too stupid to understand that this cannot be sustained.
That this is going to collapse our economy sooner or later.
It's a mathematical certainty.
It's an economic reality, but because of this contamination of these metals that are found in so many foods and superfoods and even some supplements, the U.S. population is cognitively incapable of really understanding much beyond their next paycheck or their next hit of meth or their next joint that they're going to smoke up or whatever they're going to do.
They cannot grasp In this case, there's an economic reality.
But there are other realities they can't grasp either.
Environmental pollution reality.
The reality of...
The justice system, the failed justice system, the failed war on drugs, right here.
They don't understand this organization, LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which is an organization that I support.
We need to stop criminalizing people for doing drugs.
We need to stop the stupid systems of punishing people when they actually have usually an addiction that needs to be treated as a health problem.
Why don't people grasp the reality of the fact that the reason drugs and gangs exist is because these drugs are illegal, funneling money into the hands of the gangs that create the violent crime.
If you want to stop the violence and you want to stop the criminal underground market, Legalize and regulate the drugs.
And purify them, too, because a lot of the street drugs are really, really heavily contaminated with, guess what?
Heavy metals.
So when people are injecting cheap heroin, which I understand there's a heroin now in the Midwest that's super cheap, that's cheaper than pot, I don't know per hit or whatever, but it's super cheap heroin, it's heavily contaminated with all this stuff.
So you got a guy out there that's doing heroin, he's also doing lead.
Or cadmium or copper, whatever's in it.
No wonder people who use drugs are crazy.
It's not just the drugs, it's also the contaminants.
So these are some things that you really got to think about.
You want to clean up our society?
You want to have a society that's sustainable?
You've got to clean up your food.
And that's what I'm focused on here.
That's my mission.
My name is Mike Adams.
Let's see if I can find my picture.
There I am.
This is the Consumer Wellness Center website, but it's also the Natural News Forensic Food Lab where we publish all these results.
My mission is to help clean up this planet.
To restore sanity.
To our population by cleaning up our foods, by exposing the toxic chemicals and heavy metals that are in our foods, and doing this using scientifically validated methods that are easily replicated by other labs.
So, I'm using science here in this case to help educate people about how to clean up their lives and clean up our food supply, clean up our planet, so that we might have a future as a sustainable society.
Because this future right here, this is not sustainable.
This will lead to collapse.
This will lead to a global population implosion.
Because when this falls apart, So does the food supply.
So does the population.
Mass starvation, mass chronic disease epidemics will follow very quickly.
I don't want to see that happen, which is why I do what I do.
So thank you for watching.
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That's some of my previous explanatory texts on unit conversion.
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