CHRONIC Low Level Lead Toxicity and our Health
By Linda on Nov 16, 2009 in Toxins
Linda’s Comment: Dr Garry Gordon has had a great deal of anxiety over the amounts of heavy metal toxins that we are being exposed to on a daily basis….Dr Gordon developed the FIGHT program to help reduce our load of heavy metals and become more healthy. Don’t wait until you are a dead person walking. Do your research and find your own answers.
I personally have been on the FIGHT program for over a year and very happy I did. For those of us with chronic illness like Lyme disease, we must do everything we can from diet, exercise and finding the protocol that will help us to reduce our load of pathogens and toxins.
Come join the discussion and learn how you too can reduce your total body burden of pathogens and toxins.
Regards,
Linda
CHRONIC Low Level Lead Toxicity and our Health
It seems from this new report that my concerns about chronic lead toxicity are destined to become the concerns of mainstream medicine. All I have to do is live to over 100 and my approach to health problems might become mainstream so perhaps I need to keep working hard to stay ahead of mainstream medicine.
They are not likely to adopt by FIGHT program that fast, as incorporating Food, Infection, Genetic, Heavy Metal/Hormones and Toxins into the new nationalized health care schemes will not work well with their focus on cost containment. Probably everyone could enjoy considerably improved health with such as broad spectrum approach and certainly multifactorial medicine does not fit well in a nationalized health care plan design to save money from the onset, not a few years later.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Toxic Metal Report: Lead Is Still in the Workplace and Can Affect Genetic Expression
Dealing with heavy metals—lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and others—were once the concern of integrative medical physicians and dentists alone. In fact, these practitioners were routinely targeted by medical boards for screening patients for heavy metal toxicity. But now the conventional medical literature links mercury to heart attacks and heart disease and lead to high blood pressure.
A new government report says on-the-job exposure to lead continues to be a hazard for US workers. Nationally, blood lead levels increased between 2005 and 2006/2007. Lead may be much higher in tissues rather than circulating in the bloodstream, according to many practitioners.
New research shows that lead, even at low doses, is extremely toxic. Studies of patients with thinning bones suggest that lead toxicity can occur later in life. It is often unrecognized in older adults with high blood pressure. Despite this, allopathic physicians rarely screen for heavy metals, and even many integrative physicians only suggest that their patients be screened.
A larger study shows that a mother’s total lead burden affects her children’s genetic development. Lead released from a mother’s bones during pregnancy is linked with the “turning on and off” of her fetus’s genes, which may make her children and grandchildren more susceptible to diseases that include Alzheimer’s. In addition, lead exposure before birth has been linked to premature births and low birth rates.
Screening at-risk mothers-to-be for lead toxicity should become the standard of care. Integrative physicians are clearly in the forefront of improving patient care as they recognize the role heavy metals play in our health, our children, and future generations.
