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March 13, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Toxic heavy metals in your food? Natural News Forensic Food Lab announcement
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You are about to discover a paradigm shift which may be among the most important in the history of food science.
It's truly revolutionary, and yet it's all around us because it's really just an extension of the miracles of Mother Nature.
The implications of this discovery are enormous.
It even helps explain human history, the rise and fall of civilizations, the origins of many diseases, the madness of the masses, and how young abundant nations so often seem to fall victim to a downward spiral of violent crime and disastrous economic policies put in place by people who are cognitively impaired.
This isn't a history lesson, however.
It's cutting-edge new science for understanding and revolutionizing what's happening in your life right now, in your home, with your children, in your community, and across your nation.
Applied to entire nations, these breakthroughs can dramatically raise academic scores in children, eliminate most mental health disorders, drastically reduce violent crime rates, And even salvage crumbling societies and put them back on the path to economic abundance and the furtherance of human potential.
What you are about to discover is far ahead of its time.
Although it's based on reproducible science, the scientific community is very slow to adapt to new ideas, especially ideas surrounding foods and nutrition.
So don't expect to see instant changes across society based on these discoveries.
But the good news is that you can apply what you're about to learn here right now in your own life with phenomenal results.
Because of the advanced nature of these discoveries, there are three chapters to this video.
You're watching Chapter 1 right now.
If you only watch Chapter 1, you probably won't be very impressed.
But it does lay the foundation so that we can present ideas to you in Chapters 2 and 3 that are mind-blowing and revolutionary.
They're well documented, and we've done all the research right here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
Let's begin.
Throughout human history, the rise and fall of civilizations can be charted on a table of elements.
From 7000 BC onward, humankind began to harness the utility of simple metals, transitioning into the Bronze Age based on copper and tin.
This led to the Iron Age around 1500 BC. Iron is more durable than bronze, and when combined with carbon, it creates steel, arguably the single most formative material in the history of the Industrial Era.
From the 11th century through the 19th century, iron and steel catapulted humanity's apparent progress, enabling the construction of bridges, personal vehicles, skyscrapers, and even igniting the Industrial Revolution.
As industry came online, nations that possessed abundant quantities of the right elements found themselves blessed with seemingly endless riches.
Copper, tin, nickel, and iron were some of the first elements mined for industry, and they were soon joined by chromium, vanadium, cobalt, and other exotic substances, all plucked from the same table of elements you probably remember from science class or chemistry.
Steel itself was further refined and enhanced by tungsten, molybdenum, zirconium, and even silicon to create stronger, more resilient alloys.
Meanwhile, aluminum mining and refining entered the picture in the 20th century, allowing the construction of lightweight yet extremely strong structures that ultimately gave rise to passenger airplanes, military jets, and even spacecraft.
The age of silicon unleashed modern-day semiconductors, which led to computers and ultimately the internet.
Without gallium, arsenic, germanium, and other exotic elements, the modern information age would have never materialized.
On the finance side, nations which found themselves in possession of deposits of gold, silver, and platinum were especially fortunate, as those precious metals have throughout history been relied on as stores of wealth that outlast the rise and fall of fiscally suicidal governments and their fiat currency money systems, all of which sooner or later fail due to currency debasement.
Yet, in our modern world, there are precious metals far more valuable than gold.
Today, China sits atop a near monopoly of exotic, rare-earth elements, such as scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, gadolinium, terbium, and dysprosium.
Without these elements, the world would not have electric motors, iPhones, laptop computers, solar panels, and wind turbines.
As science advances, future technologies may rely on even more exotic elements.
Ion engines for spacecraft, quantum computing, data teleportation, and possibly even anti-gravity propulsion systems will all rely on rare elements.
Just as some elements give rise to successful civilizations, toxic elements can lead to the downfall of civilizations.
The fall of Rome is often attributed, in part, to the fact that the city's water was delivered to its citizens via a lengthy network of aqueducts lined with lead.
This resulted in chronic lead poisoning of the population, ultimately leading to widespread loss of cognitive function and the kind of insanity that causes nations to unravel and implode.
The Roman civilization may be, in part, the earliest civilization brought to its knees by a toxic element, but it won't be the last.
Throughout the history of the world, water wells have been frequently contaminated with arsenic and fluoride, both extremely toxic elements.
Arsenic poisoning causes cancer, while fluoride poisoning causes lowered IQs and diseases of the skeletal system.
Excess copper leads to schizophrenia and a wide variety of mental disorders which are currently treated with psychiatric drugs that merely mask symptoms rather than removing the copper.
Cadmium causes kidney failure and an actual hardening of the personality, making people more rigid both physiologically and mentally.
And mercury is linked to a long list of neurological disorders, including autism and fertility damage.
Certain elements, it turns out, can be devastating to a population.
As a sobering example of that very fact, when the United States defeated the Japanese Empire in 1945, it did so with uranium, plutonium, and beryllium.
These elements, combined and deployed using high-level physics, utterly ended the Japanese Empire and destroyed millions of lives, leaving behind a legacy of radioactive fallout that can still be detected today in foods grown across the Northern Hemisphere.
We bombed Japan in 1945, and today, in 2014, we are still eating the fallout.
The lesson in all this?
As civilizations identify and exploit certain elements, they elevate their mastery of industry and weapons.
At first, this seems like progress, but it inevitably leads to the widespread release of toxic elements, which ultimately threaten the viability and sustainability of all life on the planet.
The human-initiated mining, refining, and deployment of these toxic elements, which include mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, aluminum, copper, and radioactive fuels for nuclear power plants, has inadvertently created a downward spiral of self-destruction that threatens sustainable life through multiple vectors, food and agriculture.
medicine and dental materials home building materials weapons of war and even energy production Today, we are bathing our planet and ourselves in toxic elements.
We have now inadvertently raised the level of toxic element contaminants in food to crisis levels that did not exist even a hundred years ago.
In the year 1914, seaweed was incredibly healthy and contained virtually no cadmium or arsenic.
But in 2014, many seaweed products contain alarming levels of those toxic elements.
In the 1950s, farmed chicken was relatively clean chicken.
But now, farmed chicken is intentionally laced with arsenic.
It's actually used in the chicken feed to kill parasites.
As recently as the 1970s, a family could go camping, catch some fish in a mountain spring, and eat those fish without fear of being poisoned with mercury.
But today, all fish, even fish caught in seemingly remote freshwater streams, is heavily contaminated with mercury.
Because mercury falls out of the sky and blankets everything.
Mountains, forests, streams, and even croplands.
Mechanized farming is now conducted in a global environment of acute exposure to toxic elements exploited by mankind.
Fluoride is used as a pesticide, and even the use of tractors and trucks near farms releases a steady stream of cadmium from vehicle brake pads.
Genetically engineered crops exhibit altered plant physiology, and there is legitimate concern that they may uptake higher levels of toxic elements compared with non-GMO crops.
Modern dentistry is also steeped in toxic mercury, a deadly element that is still inexplicably installed in the mouths of children with absolutely no acknowledgement that dental amalgams will poison that child for life.
Food from China, which is increasingly prevalent in our grocery stores and even health food products, is routinely found to contain even higher levels of toxic elements than what's typically found in food grown in North America or Europe.
That's likely because food grown in China is irrigated with water that's often used as an industrial dumping ground for China's mining and manufacturing industries.
China's coal-fired power plants, meanwhile, also release tens of thousands of tons of mercury and other toxins into the air each year, much of which gets deposited on forests and soils across California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and other western states.
When those forests burn, they re-release these toxic elements back into the air, redistributing them across the Midwestern farm belt that feeds much of North America.
That's just one way toxic pollutants from China end up on your dinner plate in North America.
Two centuries ago, the biggest threats to human life were things like infectious disease, poor public sanitation, and the lack of antibiotics led to a very high number of early infant deaths, as well as outbreaks of cholera.
But today things have been turned nearly upside down.
Antibiotics, once heralded as miracle life-saving medicines, are now virtually obsolete, having given rise to a new wave of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Vaccines, once thought to have eradicated diseases like polio, have now been so wildly overused and intentionally spiked with toxic elements like aluminum and mercury that they are one of the primary vectors of contamination of human bodies with toxic metals.
The fact that vaccines are injected, not digested like food, means they bypass all the normal protections of the GI tract.
And they go straight into blood plasma where they wreak havoc with human health.
Medicine has become toxic and foods have become nutritionally depleted but heavily contaminated with low levels of toxic elements that bioaccumulate in all mammals including humans.
We are deep into the age of chronic, cumulative, combinatory exposure to literally tens of thousands of toxic substances, including synthetic chemicals and heavy metals, most of which were virtually non-existent in the natural world just two centuries ago.
Our challenge is now urgent, and the future of life on our planet is at stake.
Can humanity survive its self-inflicted post-industrial mass poisoning?
To answer that question, I established the Natural News Forensic Food Lab and outfitted it with some of the most sensitive detection instruments.
In just a few months of research, I had made extraordinary discoveries about how each of us can protect ourselves from toxic elements.
That's what you are about to learn as you keep watching.
But first, a little science to establish some fundamentals we all need to know.
To fully understand the severity of the challenge we now face together, it's critical to realize that metals and elements from the table of elements cannot be created or destroyed in our environment.
Unlike chemical compounds, which can be bioremediated with things like mushrooms or algae, an atomic element can only be transmuted through nuclear fusion, the kind of process that takes place in exploding stars.
Well, those conditions don't exist on planet Earth, so lead stays lead.
Mercury stays mercury.
Cadmium remains cadmium.
So when you eat lead, you accumulate lead.
Your body can't transmute it into something else.
The only way to get rid of toxic heavy metals is to transport them out of your body.
And unless that process is accelerated in some way, your body's natural transport process can take a lifetime to eliminate just a fraction of these toxic elements.
For example, cadmium has a half-life in the human body of about 30 years.
Half the cadmium you eat today will still be lodged in your tissues three decades from now.
And in 60 years, you'll still have a quarter of it.
Lead, copper, mercury, and aluminum can stay in your tissues for decades.
This is not to be confused with levels of these metals in your blood.
Your blood levels decline fairly rapidly, sometimes in only a matter of days, as the heavy metal is transported out of your blood and into your organs and tissues.
Mercury in blood, for example, has a half-life of about a week.
As it's circulating in your blood, it's being incorporated into all your tissues, including hair and nails.
That's why hair analysis shows your history of acute exposure to many heavy metals.
Like the rings of a tree, each small segment of your hair contains a history of what was circulating in your blood at the moment it grew out of your skin.
Of course all of us naturally seek to protect our own health.
We want to minimize our exposure to these toxic elements, but because they are invisible to the human eye, that task seems almost hopeless.
We have no practical way to detect these elements in foods, cosmetics, soft drinks, or even home construction materials, so we inadvertently expose ourselves to them on a daily basis.
Even many things that people think will improve their health are actually harming them in other ways.
Flu shots still contain so much mercury, for example, that just one flu shot can raise the level of mercury in your blood beyond what's allowed by the EPA in a public water supply.
Many of the things you do every day in your own home are actually worsening the release of toxic elements into your local environment.
The widespread use of compact fluorescent light bulbs, for example, is an environmental disaster because all CFLs contain high levels of toxic mercury.
Even so, most consumers have no clue how toxic they really are, and they routinely throw fluorescent lights, nickel-cadmium batteries, car batteries, and other highly toxic elements into the trash where they end up in landfill.
But perhaps the most insane practice of all is the fact that human waste, heavily contaminated with chemicals, metals, and medications, is collected by cities across the United States, then relabeled as biosolids to be spread onto agricultural land to grow fruits and vegetables.
The city of Austin, Texas, for example, collects all the toxic raw sewage from across the city, composts it with shrubs and leaves, then sells the product to home gardeners and landscape companies, calling it a renewable green resource.
Effectively, we humans are eating and bioaccumulating our own toxic waste.
Because toxic elements cannot be created or destroyed, this practice of eating our own waste causes an alarming increase in the concentrations of these toxins in our own bodies.
The modern cycle of toxic waste and food can now be described as eat, excrete, repeat.
And this practice is literally killing us all.
As medicine will one day be forced to acknowledge, chronic exposure to toxic elements through food, medicine, and our environment is the primary cause of cancer, mental health disorders, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and even kidney failure.
It also contributes strongly to chronic degenerative diseases like diabetes and heart disease.
But what if there were a way to halt one of the primary vectors of poisoning of your own body?
That's part of what we've discovered here at Natural News.
But to understand why this discovery is so important, you first need to understand just how contaminated our food supply really is, including organic foods, superfoods, and some dietary supplements.
Human civilization is now well into the age of toxicity.
An age where, if trends are not reversed, autism will sharply rise until it affects one in every ten children born.
Birth defects spiral out of control.
Infertility becomes epidemic.
Chronic disease bankrupts nations, which discover they cannot buy their way out of the healthcare costs associated with widespread contamination of the food supply.
Cities, states, and national governments go bankrupt.
Hospitals are overrun with the sick and dying.
Croplands become little more than agricultural toxic element mining operations where plants accumulate deadly elements and deposit them in the bodies of everyday food consumers.
The ultra-wealthy turn to wildly expensive greenhouse operations to grow clean food that's safe from toxic fallout.
Aquaponic and hydroponic foods become the only way to avoid environmental contaminants, and fresh produce grown that way commands a premium price that the masses simply cannot afford, especially when they're paying as much as 20% of their incomes to buy government-mandated health insurance.
In the near future, commercial greenhouses will launch in-house laboratories to test for heavy metals, and foods will be certified and priced according to their contamination levels.
Low-grade food, loaded with mercury, arsenic, and cadmium, becomes the discount food sold at fast food outlets and everyday grocery stores.
Pristine food, certified free of those toxic elements, becomes nearly priceless to a population dying from metals poisoning.
Well, when we looked around, we found that nobody else seemed to be aware of this problem of heavy metals contamination of foods and raw materials.
You know, we were buying raw materials for the Natural News store and bringing those in, having them tested, and they were coming back You know polluted so we rejected those shipments, but we kept seeing high levels of lead and we would see cadmium really high levels of cadmium and a lot of things not so much mercury because we don't deal with a lot of seafood or you know ocean products, but We were finding arsenic.
We were finding high levels of aluminum in a couple of natural supplements Definitely big levels of lead and a lot of things and the FDA They don't have any limits.
There's no limit.
So the FDA came to our facility and they actually took food samples and they tested them.
And they came back to us and said, yeah, you're good to go.
You can go ahead and sell those because they're clean enough for us.
And I asked the FDA, you know, how clean, what are your limits?
And they wouldn't answer the question.
So there are no limits.
The FDA will allow any level of mercury or lead or arsenic or cadmium in foods.
There's no limit.
And the USDA is the same way.
Even the certified organic program run by the USDA It has no limits, alright?
There are no limits whatsoever on the level of contamination of organic foods with mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, copper, even radioactive isotopes like cesium-137 and uranium.
I mean, there's just no limit.
So, to me, that's not acceptable.
Yeah, so we decided to take on the role that the FDA refused to take on.
The FDA should be doing this, but they're not.
And that is testing off-the-shelf foods.
You know, buy things off the shelf, test them for lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, copper, aluminum, radioactive isotopes.
Test them and then share that information with the public.
Freely, openly, share it.
And that's what we've decided to do.
So the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, the first function that we're doing here is just going out and buying off-the-shelf foods.
Fast food, organic food, superfood, nutritional supplements, vitamins, junk food, you name it.
And those results are made public at labs.naturalnews.com.
This is the mission of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
Yeah, this is it.
Beginning now the Natural News Forensic Food Lab will be freely releasing heavy metals food contamination data to the public.
This data will be made available at labs.naturalnews.com Several times each month, the Natural News Forensic Food Lab will release the results of atomic spectroscopy testing across a selected product category such as protein powders, organic vegetables, snack chips, canned soups, sodas, fast food burgers, vitamins, superfoods and much more.
To ensure the accuracy of the results that we're getting, because accuracy is very important to us.
Quality control is very important here at the lab.
We run three different samples of every food item.
We use EPA-approved methodologies for digestion.
We use both closed cell digestion and open cell digestion, depending on the food.
All of our external standards are traceable back to NIST. So we have custom multi-element standards created for us.
They're all traceable.
We have independent outside validation of our results with an institution of higher learning.
I'll just put it that way.
And we also run certified reference materials, CRMs, to verify that our systems are working correctly.
So our numbers are really solid.
So if we say something has 0.56 parts per million of lead in it, It probably has from.5 to.6.
I mean, it's within a pretty tight range.
Plus or minus 10% on the outside range.
Normally our results are like plus or minus 5%.
So we're getting good numbers, reproducible numbers.
The science is solid.
The contamination data presented by labs.naturalnews.com will name actual brand names and lot numbers of food items tested.
The data will allow the public to determine which foods to avoid and which foods are comparatively safe to consume in the context of heavy metals.
A robust legal strategy has been put in place to allow Natural News to publish this data in the public interest without fear of being sued into silence by the companies whose products are being tested.
Let's have some basic transparency.
Let's not only know the protein, the carbohydrates, the sugars, and the ingredients.
Let's also look at these products and let's say, hey, how much lead is in it?
How much mercury is in it?
How much arsenic?
Cadmium?
Copper?
Aluminum?
These are important questions we all need to know, especially given the rise of Of such mental insanity, schizophrenia due to copper toxicity, Alzheimer's and dementia being linked to aluminum toxicity, kidney failure from cadmium toxicity, lowered IQs from lead toxicity, the neurodegenerative effects of mercury toxicity and so on.
These are serious issues for our time.
I can't even believe that the FDA hasn't already done what we're doing.
If it's a food and drug administration, the food part should include testing the food.
It's simple.
It's elementary.
So the FDA is not doing it.
So we are.
We're doing it.
We're doing it right here at Natural News.
And we're doing it for all the right reasons.
We're doing it because we believe in empowering consumers with information.
We believe in transparency.
We believe in giving people the knowledge that they need to make choices in their own lives, in their own diets, to clean up their diets.
There's moms out there who have autistic kids, and they want to avoid mercury at all costs.
For those kids.
They don't want to add to the toxic load burden that the child already has.
So they want to know what contains mercury and how can I avoid it?
We're going to give them the answers.
That's what we do.
Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
That's what we do now.
Food Science with the Wisdom of Mother Nature.
A good hybrid combination that's all about empowering consumers.
The soils are now the dumping ground for human civilization, and it's sad.
It's pathetic, in essence.
If you think about it long enough, you might break down a cry, because humanity is poisoning itself.
To such a degree that it's never been observed in the history of the planet.
So what's in the soil today are things that were not in the soil 200 years ago before the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution began to distribute into the environment these things like mercury coming out of coal-fired power plants and lead.
It was in leaded gasoline.
People were burning lead for decades in America, putting it in your gas tank.
There's mercury in everything because, you know, dentistry.
Dentists are still putting mercury in children's teeth.
It's insane.
It's an insane practice.
But we are killing ourselves.
You know, China uses cadmium in pigments for paints on children's toys.
I've been testing products that add extra copper to the product.
It's a heavy metal, and they add it in.
It's too much copper.
There's aluminum in some products.
High levels, like 400 parts per million, 1,000 parts per million aluminum.
I've seen over 1,200 parts per million.
There's arsenic now in the seaweed.
Where did all this come from?
It's from modern industry and the massive pollution of our planet.
This is not a natural process.
This is a process of pollution.
This is a process of species self-destruction.
So when we test foods and we say, hey, this has 65 parts per million arsenic or 4 parts per million lead or 0.5 parts per million mercury, which we found in some dried squid, by the way, That's me telling you that these are not natural levels.
So some of the companies that make these products might try to dishonestly defend this and say, well, that's naturally occurring.
No, it isn't.
It's a pollutant.
It's not natural, and you shouldn't grow your food there.
If that soil is contaminated with high levels of lead so high that it turns your food into a toxic food because it's got 5 or 10 parts per million lead in it, To view the results of the Health Rangers' investigations into foods,
superfoods, nutritional supplements, fast food, and more, visit labs.naturalnews.com right now.
Where you can download the research reports on an ever-growing list of products that we are testing.
Throughout 2014 we have a lot of really exciting projects that we're doing here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab.
For example, have you ever wondered whether an aluminum can of soda releases aluminum into the soda?
Versus a plastic bottle, you know, which one's safer, you know, BPA or aluminum?
Like, pick your poison.
Well, we're going to answer that question with good scientific validation of how much aluminum is actually in the soda.
We're going to cook on aluminum pans and tell you how much aluminum goes into the food that we're cooking there.
We're going to be testing all kinds of foods.
We're going to go to McDonald's.
We're going to get some chicken nuggets, which we already put under the microscope last year.
We're going to test them for arsenic and see if they contain much arsenic.
I mean, who knows?
Maybe they're clean.
I don't know.
We're going to go to Whole Foods and we're going to buy all their organic frozen products.
And we're going to bring them back here to the labs and we're going to test those.
And find out if they're really clean or not, especially foods from China.
So Whole Foods, watch out, we're coming.
We're going to do a little secret audit of your inventory.
How's that sound?
And hey, maybe their stuff's clean.
You know, I don't know.
We're going to find out.
And we're going to share that publicly.
So we've got a lot of really cool projects.
We're going to be testing super foods.
We're going to test vegan proteins, infant formulas.
Sodas, you know, just you name it.
We're going to go to the grocery store.
We're going to go to the farmer's markets.
We're going to shop on Amazon.com.
We're going to buy all these products and just run them through the system doing, you know, triplicate testing with NIST validated standards.
You know, a lot of multiple validation and error checking systems in place to make sure we get good numbers.
And then we're going to share this with the public.
So the public wins.
See, that's...
That's the situation that I like to create.
The public wins when the public is given more information about what they're eating or buying or choosing to avoid.
Our goal here, this is my mission this year at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, is to hand the public a huge win for food safety and food efficacy.
So you can enjoy all the amazing benefits of healthy foods and fresh vegetables and being a raw food vegan if that's what you're into, but you've got to do it in a safe way so you know what's clean, you know what's not clean, you can make decisions, you can feed your children good food.
These are the kind of decisions that change lives.
This is the kind of empowerment that we need in a free society.
And the reason that I'm doing all this, it's more than just about transparency and about health.
In my view, this is about saving society from self-destruction, because we live in a society today that is totally insane.
People are insane, clinically insane.
They've lost it.
You know, look at how people vote.
They're insane.
Look at the people in Washington running things, saying, oh, we've cut the budget.
Well, The deficit keeps growing and accelerating, driving us into financial destruction.
They're insane, okay?
We are a chemically lobotomized society.
And it's the fluoride, too.
There's another toxic element that's in the drugs and it's in the water.
And it's in some of the food, too.
It uses an insecticide in agriculture.
So you've got all these toxic things adding up.
The result is devastating for humanity.
Humanity is suffering.
Humanity is at risk of not making it in a big way.
For a long time, I fought as a political activist or as a food activist, and that was useful, but I think I realized the big solution to all of this is we've got to bring back the sanity.
We have to help humanity stop poisoning itself so much, to such a degree, that it's so insane that it will destroy itself by destroying the planet and releasing all these toxic elements into the food, into the water, into the soils, into the air, everywhere.
It's a cycle of destruction.
I don't want to see it happen.
I want to stop the cycle of destruction.
I think this work is making a significant contribution.
If humanity makes it through the next century, I'll be amazed.
In some ways, we may already be too late.
The toxicity that we've already endured will cause infertility for the next three or four generations, maybe six, seven, eight generations.
We don't know.
There are epigenetic factors that are worsened by the presence of toxic elements in our food.
Humanity is on the verge of truly destroying itself, and I don't want to see that happen.
We're a species worth saving, but we've got to save ourselves.
And to do that, we have to know how we're poisoning ourselves, and that's what this is really all about.
But there's another breakthrough in all this that's even more groundbreaking than the idea of testing off-the-shelf products for toxic elements and heavy metals.
That idea, created here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, will change the future of the food industry.
It is fully explained in the second chapter of this video.
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