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March 13, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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The Metals Capturing Capacity discovery that protects you from toxic heavy metals
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We are living in the age of toxicity.
Our planet is bathed in toxic elements, heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and even radioactive isotopes of elements like cesium and uranium.
Here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, we announced a public interest project to test foods, superfoods, organic foods, fast food, herbs, supplements, and fresh produce for their heavy metals.
And we're publishing that information right now at But that's only the beginning.
We also pioneered groundbreaking research into a food science concept called the Metals Retention Factor, or MRF. This describes how well each food item retains toxic elements it contains rather than releasing them into your digestive tract.
Some foods, for example, may have a high concentration of lead in terms of their composition, but they don't release much of that lead during digestion.
They retain it, hence the name metal's retention factor.
Now, in this video, we reveal the most powerful, groundbreaking concept of all, metal's capturing capacity.
So the question on everybody's mind in all of this is, what can I do to protect myself against these toxic elements?
Well, it turns out there's a lot you can do.
And that's been a lot of the research focus that I've developed here at the lab, is how do we, you know, we live in a world that's heavily polluted with lead and mercury and cadmium and so on.
There's aluminum in a lot of supplements, there's copper in a lot of things, even in your water pipes.
How do we protect ourselves?
We're developing answers.
In fact, we've got good answers right now on some things, but we're developing more.
One of the things that I pioneered here in food science is a methodology to test foods, not only for how much they release, but also what they can bind to, what they can pull in, like a sponge or like a magnet.
Some foods, it turns out, are magnets for heavy metals.
Every food or dietary substance has a natural ability to selectively capture a certain quantity of toxic metals present in the liquid surrounding it.
This ability is called the metals capturing capacity, or MCC, and it is expressed in units of micrograms per gram.
I wanted to know these answers for myself, and so I developed a methodology.
It was very tedious to develop.
It took about a million dollars worth of equipment.
It took many, many months of research and making a lot of mistakes.
I found out, you know, a thousand ways not to test the metals capturing capacity and metals retention factor for dietary substances, but ultimately I found a way to do it, and so I now have a methodology here that can test, that can determine, you take any given food or supplement, you know, wheatgrass, barley grass, acai berries, you name it.
I can now determine, scientifically, and with reproducible results, fully validated, I can tell you What is the metals capturing capacity for that food, the MCC? Which is micrograms per gram.
How many micrograms of a toxic element will be bound and absorbed by every gram of that substance and thereby prevent it from being digested or absorbed into your digestion, into your intestinal walls and going into blood plasma so that those toxic elements pass through your body.
So I've developed a way to do that and it's solid and it's reproducible.
I'm now testing, you know, hundreds of foods for these two things, the metals retention factor and the metals capturing capacity.
In metals capturing capacity testing developed at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, a precisely measured mass of a food material is run through a digestion simulator that contains a synthetic gastric acid.
The acid solution is spiked with a known quantity of multiple toxic elements, providing a known concentration of each toxic element in the gastric acid.
During digestion, the food material being tested selectively captures a measurable quantity of each toxic element.
Some foods bind to lead, others bind to mercury.
Still others may have natural affinity for cadmium, arsenic, copper, or even aluminum.
After digestion, the food solids, representing fecal matter, are separated from the liquids, which represent the solution which will be absorbed through the intestinal wall and carried into blood plasma.
These liquids are then tested via ICP-MS to determine the resulting concentration of each toxic element.
If a concentration is higher in the liquid after digestion than before digestion, it means the food added that toxic element to the gastric acid, increasing the concentration.
But if the concentration is lower after digestion than before digestion, it means the food captured toxic elements, reducing the contamination of the gastric acid.
In our testing, some foods were found to dramatically reduce concentrations of certain elements, including radioactive elements such as cesium-137.
Reduction levels of toxic elements range from zero to over 99%, depending on the substance being tested.
This research was very challenging, yeah, definitely.
Some of the elements are more difficult than others to bind with.
We ran through over a thousand candidate substances and most of them failed.
Mercury, it turns out, by the way, is very easy to bind with.
So mercury has a property that makes it very sticky, we say.
Mercury sticks to everything.
It sticks to the tubes over there in the auto sampler.
It sticks to the vials.
In fact, we have to use gold to spike the samples with gold to bind with the mercury.
And everybody who knows anything about gold mining knows that mercury and gold bind together.
So we actually take advantage of that property.
See, even that tells you right there that some things have a natural affinity to bind to other things.
Could you eat gold to bind with the mercury and get it out of your body?
The answer is yes.
It would just be a very expensive way to do it.
Are there more affordable ways to do it?
Yes.
Yes.
And we've documented them.
We found them.
And for mercury, it's hundreds of things.
Grasses, any kind of barley grass, wheat grass, alfalfa grass, any kind of a pectin, a fruit pectin, an apple pectin, a fruit fiber.
Almost any kind of fiber will bind to mercury very effectively.
So mercury was easy.
Lead was more difficult.
There were probably about a dozen things that we found that bind effectively with lead.
Cadmium was even more difficult than lead, and we still haven't found anything that binds over 90% with cadmium.
Aluminum, well let me go to arsenic, there are about half a dozen things that bind with arsenic quite effectively, about 80% reduction.
Aluminum was very tricky.
We did not find anything for aluminum until kind of the last minute.
In the research, we happen to find two substances that bind with aluminum at very high levels, reducing at about 94% in gastric acid solutions.
So we can bind with aluminum, which is very important when you consider all the natural dietary products that contain aluminum.
There's a lot of them, including all the clays.
The detox clays, high aluminum.
But now, radioactive isotopes are a totally different story.
If you want to bind with radioactive cesium-137, which is the most insidious byproduct of a nuclear catastrophe or a nuclear bomb, because it persists in the environment for 200 to 300 years.
It's got a half-life of 30 years.
It's a mess-up agriculture in your nation for centuries.
Cesium-137, very difficult.
Uranium, a little easier, but still tricky.
So, If you show me a table of elements now, I can actually point to the table of elements and I can say, look, alright, here's the foods that bind with this, you know, mercury or lead or copper or anything that concerns you.
We now have a list and it's expanding.
We're working on this.
This is still in process.
I just want you to know.
But we are developing a full list of all the things that bind with all the other things in digestion.
So, You can imagine the implications of this.
It's enormous.
Suppose you're eating fish, seafood, and you're concerned about mercury.
Well, my research shows that if you eat an apple before you eat the fish, the apple will absorb the mercury in the fish.
So you can now enjoy fish without being concerned about the mercury.
Whereas if you didn't eat an apple, if you had some fake processed food like apple-flavored Jell-O, that's not going to help you with the mercury in the fish.
Or if you drink a grass smoothie, like a wheat grass smoothie, or a barley grass smoothie, oat grass smoothie, before a meal, when you eat out at a restaurant, that smoothie will protect you from these elements.
And we've documented it.
That's what's exciting about this.
We're actually going to be able to give you a blueprint, a roadmap, of what you can do to eat more safely in a polluted world.
That's pretty exciting because a lot of people enjoy sushi and they enjoy seafood and nobody wants to eat radiation.
Nobody wants to eat mercury.
People want solutions and now we've got it.
We've documented it.
Until now, there have been a lot of myths out there.
A lot of people said, well, cilantro.
Cilantro is going to bind with lead.
Well, we tested cilantro.
It's not that good.
Let me tell you, I got the numbers.
Cilantro is not very good at binding with lead.
In fact, there are a lot of things that are way better than cilantro.
I was disappointed in cilantro, frankly.
It's just, it didn't do very well.
In 2003, the FDA put out a kind of a desperate call to the pharmaceutical industry requesting a drug company to create a substance, a drug, that would bind with radioactive cesium in the gastrointestinal tract.
And this was, you know, a couple years after 9-11, so the FDA was concerned about Radiological terrorism.
And so the companies went to work on it and they created this right here, Prussian Blue.
It's a blue pigment and the safety warning says, caution, wear gloves and use a respirator when handling this material.
It's used in the art industry.
It's a pigment and it's very, very blue.
So it's called Prussian blue.
Well, it works.
It actually works.
We tested it.
So we combined the Prussian blue with cesium-137 and we were able to show...
In a certain concentration level, a certain level of a cesium spike, we were able to show about a 70% reduction in the remaining amount of cesium after using Prussian blue.
So the Prussian blue really does bind with cesium.
It really does.
It works.
But it's not a food.
It's a chemical.
It's not something that people want to eat.
And it's a drug.
So you have to get a prescription to get this stuff.
And who knows how much it costs per dose.
It might be 50 bucks a dose.
But if you're eating radioactive food, you might not care about the cost.
But who knows?
So I decided, let's create something natural that beats Prussia Blue.
Let's find a natural substance, a botanical extract or a grass or a Chinese medicine herb or something.
Let's find something that binds with cesium in the intestinal tract and works better than Prussian blue.
And that's what we're doing right now.
We don't yet have the answer to that, but our testing is continuing.
And this is one of our missions right now, because if we can find a natural substance that can block or bind with the cesium-137, Better than Prussian Blue, it will probably cost a fraction of this drug, and it will be a dietary supplement, not a drug, and it will be safe because it's based on a food.
Ideally, we'd like to find ingredients that are GRAS, generally recognized as safe, grass, by the FDA. If we can find that, that's the holy grail of radioprotective dietary supplements.
If we can find that, we can help save A lot of lives.
We can help humanity create defenses against this catastrophe of nuclear disaster, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and whatever future nuclear disasters are yet to come.
And there will be more, you know, unfortunately.
That's the nature of the fallibility of human ingenuity.
So we need this.
We need this.
And I intend to find it.
If the Natural News Forensic Food Lab can identify a natural substance that binds with cesium-137, it would signify a breakthrough for humanity.
People living downwind from nuclear accidents, such as Fukushima, would finally have a way to protect themselves from foods contaminated with radioactive cesium.
Nations that use nuclear power could distribute the supplements to their own citizens as a protective defense against nuclear accidents.
Most importantly, such a supplement could also protect lives in ways that potassium iodide simply cannot.
Well potassium iodide or nascent iodine doesn't protect you against dietary radionuclides.
Iodine supplements, like KI pills, potassium iodide, they're designed to protect you from really one thing, and that's radioactive iodine, or iodine-131, the 131 isotope.
Which, by the way, has a really short half-life of only, I think, about a week.
If you're in a fallout situation or you're dealing with living in an area that's been polluted by fallout or the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe or like a Fukushima type of situation, iodine-131 is really not a big concern.
Iodine-131 is going to be gone before it gets to America if it's from Fukushima.
It's mostly gone.
Your far bigger concern is cesium-137 because it has a half-life of 30 years.
It persists in the environment.
It gets into the soil.
It gets into the plants.
It gets into the food supply.
And if you eat it, it gets into your cells because it mimics potassium.
It's in the same column on the table of elements as potassium, cesium is.
So it mimics potassium, and it's very dangerous in that way.
This is why Chernobyl is still uninhabited, because of cesium, not because of iodine.
So a lot of people are out there buying iodine, or nascent iodine, or potassium iodide, not realizing that that doesn't protect them at all from radioactive food.
It only protects them from really a short-lived radioactive isotope.
So what humanity needs right now is They need a defensive dietary protection against cesium-137.
That's what humanity needs in this age of nuclear power where...
The industry is falling apart and disasters seem to be more commonplace and even Fukushima is on the verge of collapse from one more earthquake or one more tidal wave and releasing a lot, an enormous quantity of really deadly radioactive fuel into the northern hemisphere.
There are no solutions really out there for defending yourself against cesium-137.
So that's really my mission right now is to identify, develop, and test a dietary supplement based on GRAS ingredients that can protect us all from radioactive cesium in our foods.
And ideally, I would like to find a substance that can reduce cesium by over 90% during gastric acid digestion.
But that has no negative side effects and actually has a long history of established safe use in the nutrition industry or as a food or whatever it happens to be.
So that's my goal, is to find that.
And we've got the tools here to do it.
We don't need money from the government to do this.
We're not asking you for donations.
We're funding this ourselves, basically.
So it's very simple.
We are redirecting our revenues to important scientific endeavors in the public interest for protecting humanity from this age of nuclear energy.
And in that research, we're also finding solutions to protect you from lead, to protect you from mercury in fish, to protect you from arsenic and cadmium and seaweed, to protect you from elements in Chinese medicine that might be contaminated, and many, many other things.
So this is a full-spectrum solution, and we're nailing it.
We're nailing it.
But really, this is powerful work, and we're changing the world with this.
We're helping a lot of people and saving a lot of lives ultimately is what it's really about.
That's what matters to me.
Right now, as you are watching this, the search is on.
We are testing thousands of substances for natural binding affinities with radioactive isotopes and toxic heavy metals.
Results are carefully measured and confirmed using the most capable scientific instrumentation available in our world today.
As this search continues, we hope to find amazing life-saving solutions for humanity.
We don't need your donations.
We don't need government grants.
We don't need money from the NIH. We are doing this on our own with your support of the Natural News Store.
We are combining the best of science with the wisdom of Mother Nature.
And we fully expect to deliver extraordinary breakthroughs in the months ahead.
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